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Setting Up Your Server Backup
We get a lot of requests for best practices and recommendations for ways to set up your server environment. ShadowProtect makes it pretty easy to backup everything on your Windows servers, but there are ways to set things up so that you’re maximizing your resources and your business continuity.
So one of our technical engineers has put together a great guide that outlines some ways to configure your servers and keep them up and running. It involves backing up each Windows server with ShadowProtect Server (or ShadowProtect Small Business Server) and running ShadowProtect ImageManager Enterprise on your critical servers so they’re backed up onsite and offsite. This way, when there’s a business disruption — from a server crash to a category 5 hurricane — you can restore your servers, recover your data, and get your business running again.
These scenarios involve our new VirtualBoot technology, that allows you to boot a ShadowProtect backup image file into a virtual machine in a matter of a few short minutes, as well as HeadStart Restore, which allows you to restore your backups before they’re needed. You can find out more about ShadowProtect by visiting the product pages, or you’re always welcome to contact us with your questions.
ShadowProtect Server Scenario Guide
ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server have a lot of uses beyond backup and disaster recovery. You may not even know all of the ways that ShadowProtect Server can help you protect your valuable business data. That’s why we’ve put together a scenario guide that shows several different ways you can use ShadowProtect Server for various problems.
For example, if you thought ShadowProtect Server was just a tool to help you perform server backup or bare metal recovery, you will be pleasantly surprised. Some of the other use cases include server migration, granular recovery of files and folders, disaster recovery testing and planning, backup verification and backup management.
The scenario guide is posted on our Web site as a PDF. Download it to find out all of the ways that the latest version in the award-winning ShadowProtect line of backup, disaster recovery and migration software can help you protect your data.
ShadowProtect Server Review in Redmondmag.com
Redmond Magazine just posted a review roundup of several backup and disaster recovery products for servers. The review spotlights four products designed especially for SMBs, including StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™. The reviewer gave ShadowProtect high marks, and pointed out several great features.
Backups in SP are image-based, using the underlying VSS technology in Windows Server and providing very fast backups after the first full backup, as only changed sectors are backed up.
SP is a comprehensive product, offering efficient backups and smoothly blending the physical and virtual worlds for easy disaster recovery.
Check out the full review online and see why ShadowProtect is a great choice, especially if maximizing business continuity is really important for your company.
Virtual Backup
Many SMBs are flirting with virtualization these days. It isn’t just for large enterprises any more. That’s because it can help you maximize storage or give you a way to keep that server running while you’re repairing your physical hardware. In any case, a lot of people are looking into the ways virtualized storage can be a lifesaver. Fortunately, as a ShadowProtect user, you won’t have to change your backup solution if you decide to make the switch to the virtual world. That’s because ShadowProtect not only backs up physical systems, it backs up virtual systems as well.
In addition, ShadowProtect has the added advantage of allowing you to migrate from physical environments to virtual ones, and from virtual to physical — or any combination of the two (P2P, P2V, V2V or V2P). The cool Hardware Independent Restore™ technology in ShadowProtect allows you to change your environment no matter what kind of hardware you’re switching to. So upgrade that server without fear.
Plus, you’ll want to check out the new virtualization tools in ShadowProtect 4.0. The newest version of ShadowProtect has two really cool new features. The first is VirtualBoot™, which lets you right-click on a ShadowProtect backup image file and boot it as a virtual machine, usually in about two minutes (no matter how large the server). Another feature is the new Virtual Converter in the Backup Image tool, which lets you convert a ShadowProtect backup image into a VM — either .VHD or .VMDK.
If you’re exploring how to make the most of virtual technology to maximize your storage, be sure to see how ShadowProtect will help you get all your data into the virtual world — and to continue to protect it once you’re there.
ShadowProtect Server 4.0 and ShadowProtect Small Business Server Available
StorageCraft released ShadowProtect Server™ 4.0 and ShadowProtect Small Business Server™ 4.0 this morning. There are some great new features in this new version that you will definitely want to check out.
In particular VirtualBoot™. With VirtualBoot, you can right click on any ShadowProtect™ image file and boot it as a virtual machine. 
This feature makes it very easy to test new software in your server environment or boot legacy systems for archival purposes.
“We could not be more excited about VirtualBoot and the other features that ShadowProtect 4.0 is bringing to the table,” said Sean Furman, president of STF Consulting. “The new functionality is truly game changing for us and we look forward to utilizing ShadowProtect 4.0 in our managed services offering.”
VirtualBoot uses Sun VirtualBox to boot the file into .VMDK or .VHD format.
Other features in ShadowProtect Server 4.0:
- Central management console,
- Virtual converter,
- ShadowProtect ImageManager™,
- Image verification and re-verification,
- Image consolidation,
- Resume on Interruption,
- Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR),
- Bare metal recovery,
- Granular recovery of files and folders in moments.
Check out the ShadowProtect product pages for additional information, including data sheets, white papers and product tours.
StorageCraft ShadowProtect in PC World
StorageCraft ShadowProtect is mentioned in a success story in PC World about virtualizing blade servers. PC Troubleshooters in Rhode Island is using ShadowProtect Server as part of its backup and disaster recovery solution to protect the systems and data on the servers in their data center.
We created our own backup and disaster recovery system by deploying a network-attached storage device onsite and using StorageCraft ShadowProtect software to image servers on an hourly basis. Each image is encrypted and sent to two separate storage facilities in Maryland and Colorado.
Check out this case study and find out how you might be able to use StorageCraft ShadowProtect as part of your backup and disaster recovery offering, whether you’re protecting physical servers, virtual servers, or both.
StorageCraft Offers Competitive Upgrade Pricing for ShadowProtect
CA customers who switch to ShadowProtect will receive discounted pricing
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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – Feb. 9, 2010 – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced it will offer competitive upgrade pricing to those who choose to switch to the StorageCraft ShadowProtect™ line of disk-based backup, disaster recovery and system migration software for Windows servers, desktops and laptops.
StorageCraft is offering this special pricing discount to current users of Computer Associates ARCserve Backup or Disk Backup and Restore who wish to purchase StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server™ or ShadowProtect Small Business Server™.
“ShadowProtect makes it very easy to protect your systems and data – whether they’re physical systems or virtual systems,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development at StorageCraft. “Many resellers and IT administrators are switching to StorageCraft solutions because they offer ease of use and they are incredibly reliable.”
ShadowProtect has the following advantages:
* Bare metal recovery of Windows servers in minutes.
* Ability to restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual environments (P2P, P2V, V2P and V2V).
* Hardware independent restore of backup images to different systems.
* Support for online backup applications such as Exchange and SQL.
* Ability to schedule automatic full and/or incremental backups.
* ImageManager™ tool to limit storage consumption and simplify archiving.
* Ability to compress and encrypt backup images.
How to Receive Upgrade Pricing
Competitive upgrade discount pricing is for existing CA ARCserve Backup or Disk Backup and Restore customers. The competitive upgrade discount is 35 percent off the list price when customers switch to ShadowProtect Server or ShadowProtect Small Business Server. To obtain competitive upgrade pricing, resellers should send an e-mail message to discounts@storagecraft.com or a fax message to + 801.999.7650, and include one of the following: a copy of their license certificate(s), a copy of their purchase receipt or an e-mail confirmation from a download purchase. In addition, customers may mail their product CD as proof of purchase to StorageCraft Technology Corporation, 121 W. Election Road, Draper, Utah, 84020.
This offer is available in North America and South America only.
Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect Server and ShadowProtect Small Business Server are available through Lifeboat Distribution authorized resellers, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.
For more information about ShadowProtect or to learn more about becoming an authorized StorageCraft Reseller, please call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: http://www.storagecraft.com/shadow_protect_server.php.
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
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ShadowProtect, ShadowProtect Server, ShadowProtect Small Business Server and ImageManager are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
StorageCraft Offers Competitive Upgrade Pricing for ShadowProtect Server Edition
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.5 includes hardware independent restore (HIR) features, allowing IT administrators to backup, restore or migrate servers to and from any environment, including the same system, dissimilar hardware or virtual environments such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual Iron, Xen and other virtualization solutions.
“ShadowProtect offers tremendous flexibility and versatility for administrators wanting to change their backup, migration and recovery software,” said Curt James, vice president of marketing and business development at StorageCraft. “It’s an extremely versatile tool and along with competitive upgrade pricing, it makes ShadowProtect a tremendous value.”
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.5 provides the following advantages:
- Fast and reliable automatic point-in-time backups
- Bare metal recovery of Windows servers in minutes
- Hardware Independent Restore—restore backup images to the same system or dissimilar hardware (P2P)
- Restore or migrate backup images to and from virtual environments such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual iron, Xen and other virtualization solutions (P2V, V2P, V2V)
- Support of Microsoft Exchange and SQL without the need of additional agents
- Simplified file and folder recovery
- Included ShadowProtect console allows you to manage all your systems from one location.
In addition, CRN will soon name StorageCraft an Emerging Technology Vendor for the second year in a row, recognizing StorageCraft’s commitment to its reseller partners and for its award-winning technology.
How to Receive Upgrade Pricing
Competitive upgrade discount pricing is for existing Commvault Simpana Backup & Recovery, BakBone NetVault Backup, BakBone NetVault Bare Metal Recovery, BakBone NetVault Real-Time Data Protector, Computer Associates ARCserve Backup, Computer Associates Disk Backup and Restore, Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Server, Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Server Edition, Symantec Live State Recovery Advanced Server Edition, Symantec Live State Recovery Standard Server Edition, Symantec V2i Protector Server Edition, Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server, Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows and Acronis True Image Server for Windows customers.
The competitive upgrade discount is 35 percent off the list price when these customers switch to ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.5. To obtain competitive upgrade pricing, resellers should send an e-mail message to discounts@storagecraft.com or a fax message to + 801.999.7650, and include one of the following: a copy of their license certificate(s), a copy of their purchase receipt or an e-mail confirmation from a download purchase. In addition, customers may mail their product CD as proof of purchase to StorageCraft Technology Corporation, 121 W. Election Road, Draper, Utah, 84020.
This offer is available in North America and South America only.
Pricing and Availability
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.5 is available for $899 (US) from authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.
For additional information about StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.5, or to learn more about competitive upgrade pricing and volume licensing, please email discounts@storagecraft.com, call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: http://www.storagecraft.com/shadow_protect_server.php.
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative disaster recovery, system migration, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
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StorageCraft Releases ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0
Disk-based backup and disaster recovery software includes hardware independent restoration (HIR)
to and from virtual and physical systems
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DRAPER, Utah, U.S.A. – StorageCraft Technology Corporation, a provider of innovative disk-based backup, disaster recovery, data protection and security solutions for servers, desktops and laptops, today announced the release of StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition™ 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition™ 3.0, the latest versions of the award-winning ShadowProtect™ line of disk-based backup and disaster recovery software.
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 include hardware independent restoration (HIR), allowing IT administrators to backup, restore or migrate server, desktop and laptop systems to any environment, whether physical or virtual.
“ShadowProtect has revolutionized the way we approach data backup and recovery,” said Dave Watts, president of NetFusion, Inc., a Los Angeles-based systems consulting firm specializing in outsourced support for small to medium-sized businesses. “ShadowProtect allows us to recover an entire server from scratch in an hour or two, and ShadowProtect 3.0 even allows us to restore to different hardware!”
HIR Features Give Disaster Recovery and System Migration Flexibility
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 allow IT professionals to restore or migrate servers, desktops and laptops in any environment – whether virtual or physical.
In addition, ShadowProtect can migrate to new systems with tremendous flexibility – whether from a physical machine to another physical machine (P2P), a physical to a virtual machine (P2V), a virtual machine to another virtual machine (V2V) or even from a virtual machine to a physical machine (V2P). ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 support virtualization solutions, such as VMware platforms and Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC, for quick and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and consolidation.
“We’ve engineered ShadowProtect 3.0 to help IT professionals protect every Windows system in their computing environment,” said Scott Barnes, chief technology officer at StorageCraft. “This means there aren’t any limitations on the types of Windows systems you are backing up or migrating to – whether virtual or physical.”
Improved Recovery Features
The improved features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 also make it easier to recover servers, desktops and laptops following a catastrophic failure. New features in ShadowProtect include tools that help administrators get systems up and running in minutes.
ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 have an improved recovery environment which includes additional drivers to make it easy to recover systems and data. In addition, ShadowProtect allows IT professionals to dynamically load drivers to provide complete flexibility in adding new storage controller drivers or NIC drivers, for example.
Additional features in ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition include:
- Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista; includes automatic hardware detection and network support.
- New Verify Backup Image tool to ensure backup files are recoverable.
- Additional optical media support (CD-R/RW, DVD+-R/RW, Blu-ray R/RE (both single and dual layer).
- Network throttling during backup for improved performance.
- Improved image management.
- Windows Vista support.
- Visual partitioning support.
- Remote management of recovery environment.
- Improved user interface.
- Bare metal recovery of servers, desktops and laptops in minutes.
- Ability to take online or cold state backup images without the need to install software.
- Simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
- Network Configurator to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.
“ShadowProtect has changed the way we protect our clients’ most valuable assets – their data,” adds NetFusion’s Watts. “Before implementing ShadowProtect, we backed up our clients’ data to tape, once a day. With ShadowProtect, we backup our clients’ servers to disk – even their Exchange servers – every 15 minutes, instead of once a day. ShadowProtect gives us the flexibility to restore from any one of those points in time.”
StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0 and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 are available now through the StorageCraft Web site and through authorized StorageCraft distributors, managed service providers (MSPs) and value-added resellers (VARs). Volume discounts are available.
For additional information about ShadowProtect Server Edition 3.0, ShadowProtect Desktop Edition 3.0 or to learn more about volume licensing, please call +1 801 545-4700 or visit: http://www.storagecraft.com/solutions/protect.
About StorageCraft Technology Corporation
StorageCraft Technology Corporation provides innovative security, disaster recovery and data protection solutions for servers, desktops and laptops. StorageCraft delivers software products that reduce downtime, improve security and stability for systems and data and lower the total cost of ownership for servers, desktops and laptops.
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ShadowProtect, ShadowProtect Server Edition and ShadowProtect Desktop Edition are trademarks of StorageCraft Technology Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.