StorageCraft ShadowProtect

paintb4707

Anyone use it? I was seriously considering it for our company, seems to be a much better alternative to file based backups since the difference with downtime is huge when restoring them. Don't have to reinstall the OS, software, drivers, and reboot over 5 times throughout the course of the whole process. And another cool feature is, you can convert the images for VMWare to use in testing environments.

http://storagecraft.com/products/ShadowProtectServer/

SWM

We use Storage craft and Symantec Backup Exec system recovery on numerous sites. Both offer similar features, but at this stage favour Symantec product.

The best feature of both is the bare metal recovery, Just recently created a image of a P3 W2003 server on a cheap chipset and transfered the image onto a Dell Duel Xeon server. With in two hours I had a booting server with all apps installed and running and all domain computers believe it is the same box !! pretty cool

paintb4707

SWM wrote:

We use Storage craft and Symantec Backup Exec system recovery on numerous sites. Both offer similar features, but at this stage favour Symantec product.

The problem with Backup Exec is, you have to buy agents for various software.

Seems like ShadowProtect is an all-in-one solution.

SWM

From my understanding you need to buy agents for Backup Exec 11D (traditional tape backup). Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (Used to be called Livestate Recovery) does not need agents.

It creates a snapshot of each sector of the hard drive and as a result does not care if you have SQL, Exchange etc.

shednik

paintb4707 wrote:

Anyone use it? I was seriously considering it for our company, seems to be a much better alternative to file based backups since the difference with downtime is huge when restoring them. Don't have to reinstall the OS, software, drivers, and reboot over 5 times throughout the course of the whole process. And another cool feature is, you can convert the images for VMWare to use in testing environments.

http://storagecraft.com/products/ShadowProtectServer/

We use this at my current company and it's great...

I don't know much about the server edition if there is much of a difference, but the IT edition is very useful for images of our production servers...

I can take an image of one of our DCs and then lay it down on a VM or a desktop...run Hardware Independent Restore and poof it works like a charm for troubleshooting...anything XP/2003 or newer can be imaged live which is nice as well..