Virtual Backup Recovery Outline: Disk imaging is a quicker way to restore than regular file backups. The next trend of backups for businesses are being used along with virtualization technology. With servers being consolidated and migrated into virtual machines, disaster recovery is a very realistic solution and Paragon Software Drive Backup makes this a quick process.

1. Paragon Software Group How to Use Virtual Disks for Recovery in Minutes

2. Virtual Backup/Recovery Disk imaging is a quicker way to restore than regular file backups. The next trend of backups for businesses are being used along with virtualization technology. With servers being consolidated and migrated into virtual machines, disaster recovery is a very realistic solution and Paragon makes this a quick process. Even if you are not taking full advantage of virtualization you can still use the technology for a way to get you computers and servers back online in minutes without having to run a complete restore of a backup image. There are even free virtual environments available that can save you money and still give you a powerful recovery tool. The IDC expects virtualization to be a $60 billion server market in 2010

4. Virtual Backup/Recovery In one step all you need to do is tell Drive Backup what to name and where to put the virtual hard disk for easy access over the network for recovery.

5. Virtual Backup/Recovery By creating virtual disks of your mission critical servers instead of, or in conjunction with your typical backup scenario, you create an environment that you can restore to in a matter of minutes. Scenario : Using a NAS device or other container for .vmdk virtual files, schedule a daily/weekly P2V copy only keeping a small number of virtual drives for immediate access. When disaster strikes all you need to do is power on the virtual drive and your server is back online and you are up and running quickly.

6. Physical Server Crash to Working Virtual Server Virtual Server Running Virtual Server The power of virtual image backups : If you have been creating .vmdk files instead of regular images you cut your restore time into minutes.

7. Virtual Disaster Recovery Scenario How to Use a Paragon Drive Backup Image to Restore into a Virtual Machine

8. Disaster Recovery P2V Virtual machines have standard emulated hardware configurations. There are no limitations to restore an archive of a real machine or a virtual machine to another one as long as you have the proper drivers and a supported virtual machine. The process is shown in the following scenario. Situation: Company server crashes. It could be days before a new server is delivered and that is just not an option. Solution: In a 3 step process, a company could have their server back up and running without the presence of a new physical server. For example, using VMware and Drive Backup the server can be recovered to the last point a backup was taken, or possibly to its last working state, while the company waits on their new physical server to arrive.

9. Restore an Unbootable Server to Working Virtual Server Virtual Server Running Virtual Server Move an image the of virtual server back to a physical drive when ready

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