Service Provider Weekly June 5, 2006
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Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux
You can even use Iomega's JAZZ and ZIP drives to backup your server No one we know likes it when they experience a hard drive failure or the system is plagued by a damaging virus. There's always the chance that this could happen and it can be quite detrimental to business when this happens on a server. If you have a Linux-based server and are looking for an easy and quick way to back up your system, we think you'll like the package available from Acronis. Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux can be used with a wide variety of Linux operating systems and it receives our Editor's Choice Award for reliability and price. Several different type of backups can be accomplished with this package with most notable being the company's Active Restore feature that allows your server to boot up from a previously saved backup of the server. You can also perform incremental and differential backups of the server which will save time and can be performed when the server is experiencing downtime. Full image backups while in the Linux environment are available in addition to file-specific backups. You can also choose to use compression to save space on the destination media. There is quite a bit of flexibility in the choice of where to store the image or backup and this includes attached storage devices, network hard drives, DVD or CD-ROM optical burners and you can even use Iomega's JAZZ and ZIP drives. The software also supports all levels of RAID or SCSI controllers. The amount of time it will take to backup the server will depend on the speed of the server's hard drive and the destination method chosen. When tested in our lab we encountered a 100-percent accuracy rate when we restored a test hard drive partition. Various versions of Linux are supported on the server that implements Acronis True Image 9.1 software and they include Red Hat 9, Red Hat Advance Server 3.0, SuSE 9, Mandrake 9.2 and Fedora Core versions 1 & 2. The software can be used with a variety of file systems such as Linux Ext2 & Ext3, Linux SWAP, XFS, ReiserFS, NTFS, JFS and FAT 16 & 32. If you're looking for a software package that provides a quick and accurate backup of your Linux-based server, then check out Acronis' True Image 9.1 Server for Linux. You can order the software directly from the company for $699. Current owners of the package can upgrade their software at the discounted price of $399. You'll find more information and customer testimonials by visiting their web site at ca.acronis.com.
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