E BUSINESS magazine October, 2006
A lifesaver for any company — vital data backup using Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux
Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux Imagine the unthinkable! Imagine you are the administrator of a small
company running Linux servers which are absolutely critical to the running of your business – and the servers have crashed taking all your essential company information with them! Disaster? Yes. Recoverable? Yes –
IF you have Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux. Why? What does it do?
Well True Image does just what is says – it take a true image of your data, burns it to DVD or other media, and
that this is then available to you so that you can restore your precious files, without interrupting normal operations. That must be a good investment in the continuation of your company,
mustn’t it? In short, Acronis True Image is a locally man aged online server backup, server disk imaging, and bare-metal restore solution for Linux servers. By taking a ‘snapshot’ of your disk, Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux makes it possible for you to restore everything to exactly the same state it was when the image was taken. Acronis True Image will conduct automatic image verification after burning to ensure that the process performed correctly and that a restore will be without a hitch. It can perform full or differential backups. It can allow you to modify images by
mounting them in read/write media and applying the changes directly. It can perform selective backups, where you decide, on the files or data to be written rather than the whole disk. Another very useful feature is the ability to create a CD with bootable images and bootable recovery images so that in the event of a total system crash you can get up and running again quickly. In addition, to minimize disruption of normal operations while the image is being made, Acronis True Image will use throttling to control the write speed of the hard disk and the network bandwidth.
It’s also worth noting that Acronis True Image for Linux allows a full system restore, a bare-metal restore or
the restore of individual files and folders. It cannot be emphasized too much that every company must have a backup policy in place. Whilst physical premises can be rebuilt or refurbished, digital data cannot be so easily restructured, and this has lead to the
downfall – if not the final end – of more than one company over the years. So using a product like Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux makes financial and strategic sense for any company. And the cost is negligible when compared to the alternatives!
SummaryAcronis launch the "only Linux disk imaging and bare-metal disk imaging and bare-metal restore solution for Linux servers."
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