Bare Metal Backup and Recovery
If you are more or less advanced PC user, then you must be aware that not the entire HDD data can be accessed and viewed as common files. Bare metal backup is a type of backup that treats your hard drive as "bare metal", regardless of the structure of files located on it. Based on disk imaging technology, it lets you not only back up your documents and media, but also backup operating system with all drive boot records and system information.
The main difficulty with bare metal backups is that they can't be made to the drive that has an operating system running on it. Active operating systems exclusively lock their data, not allowing third parties to access it, either on files or on sector levels. This means that to back up your main system drive, you need to boot from a different drive.
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If you purchase Handy Backup Home Professional or higher, you can use the its registration key to register Handy Backup Disaster Recovery as well.
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Bare Metal Backup and Recovery Software
Handy Backup Disaster Recovery is a program designed specifically for performing bare metal backup and recovery. The utility has an option to create a bootable system backup and recovery drive (Flash or USB) with a full-featured operating system of its own, tweaked for Handy Backup. By booting from this medium, you can easily create image backup of your hard disk and store it to any media or server you like, then boot from your main HDD again and continue working.
Having such a backup enables you to perform bare metal recovery and restore your HDD to a completely new, "bare metal" system. This technique provides not only means of disaster recovery in case of a hardware failure, but also lets you clone one hard drive to another one.
This feature is available in Handy Backup Home Professional:
$99 per license
What to Back Up
My Documents backup - one click backup of the My documents folder including pics, videos, music, text files
Website backup - most reliable solution to protect your business web representation
Disk Image Backup - back up your hard drive by creating a hard drive image and saving it to the storage medium
MySQL backup - simple, comprehensive backup of the MySQL database tables
ODBC Database Backup - back up any ODBC compatible databases including MySQL, Oracle, FoxPro, Interbase, MSSQL, DB2, MS Access, Postgre SQL etc.
Where to Back Up
Backup to DVD-R - record your backups to DVD-R with our in-built DVD burning tool
Backup to CD-R - record your backups to CD-R using data encryption and compression with one click
Backup USB - back up your data to any USB connected device such as USB flash key
Backup to FTP - transfer your backups to remote FTP server for more data security
Backup from FTP - back up data stored on a remote FTP server to your local computer or any removable storage medium
How to Back Up
Backup with ZIP compression - backup with 10 levels of Zip compression saves storage space
DVD backup verification - makes sure your data are restorable from DVD copy you made
Synchronizing files and folders - one click synchronization of files and folders across multiple locations including remote FTP servers
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