Disaster Recovery of Your System

Disaster recovery is an ability to restore the computer to a working state after a major failure. There are many types of disasters that can occur to a workstation or a server: from floods, earthquakes and other "acts of God" to mistaken or intentional data deletion. Regardless of the problem, all home users and enterprises are looking for one: to protect computer data from loss or damage, and be able to quickly recover it.

The strategy that lies behind any disaster recovery plan is always the same. Firstly, you create a hard drive image containing your operating system, all folders and files. Secondly, you create a recovery CD, or a flash drive, that contains some operating system (different than your main one) that you can run. And then, if the need arises, you load from this recovery drive, and restore the backup you made in the first step.

Disaster Recovery with Bootable Media

The necessity of an external media you can boot from is easily explainable: without it there’s a significant ambiguity regarding disaster recovery. What if your system failed, you hard drive broke down, and you can’t even start your computer? You have a drive containing the backup, but to restore it you need a working system, and to run the system you need to restore your backup!

Handy Backup is a powerful and very easy-to-use data backup and disaster recovery software. Along with many forceful backup features, it can create a recovery drive that you can boot from in case of a system failure. Whatever happens to your main drive, if you want to make use of a backup and recover or clone your system, you always have a way to do it!

Database Backup and Recovery

In business environment, there is another type of data that requires a special approach: information stored in databases. Today most companies rely on DBMS to store financial information, warehousing, correspondence and other data, and the significance of precise database backup and fast disaster recovery for business integrity can’t be overestimated.

The problem is that databases can’t be backed up with a file-based approach: they are complex objects that are kept in a server’s memory and can be accessed and modified by multiple users at once. Backing up a database without stopping the server may be a highly complicated task, not doable without specialized software, such as Handy Backup.

Handy Backup has a very wide set of features related to database backup:

• Hot database backup technology. Downtime of mission-critical databases is a disaster that all businesses want to avoid, so it’s best if the backup can be made without stopping the DBMS service. Handy Backup can perform hot backup and recovery of MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL and other popular databases.
• Plug-in-based architecture. Handy Backup has a range of plug-ins designed to back up MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, Lotus Domino, Exchange Servers, and other databases. It’s extensible system allows you to select any features you need and build the most cost-effective backup solution, for your very needs.
• Flexible configuration. The software offers a vast variety of backup features to organize the effective backup system: a wide choice of storage media, flexible scheduler, compression, encryption, and other options.

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