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IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM BUSINESSES

UBDR Pro provides entry level disaster recovery functions for the small to medium business market:

• Extremely fast backup and disaster recovery
• Very easy to set up and use
• Universal boot media (no advance set-up required)
• Reduces critical machine downtime to the absolute minimum
• Eliminates all unused space to minimize backup time and media
• Built-in Locked File Backup Agent to guarantee file integrity
• Built-in data encryption feature
• Back up to local disk, tape, SAN, NAS, or UNC path
• Hardware failure redirect
• SMTP email alerts
• No need for an experienced system administrator

IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY FOR LARGER ENVIRONMENTS

UBDR Gold provides additional disaster recovery functions for more sophisticated users:

• Dissimilar hardware restore:   Restore a failed machine to completely different hardware
• Virtual integration:   Restore a machine to either VMware ESX/GSX or Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005
• Restore +/- partitions:   Allows a restore to either a larger or smaller partition than the original backup
• Ease of deployment:   Auto Update or FTP rollout with MSI scripting to install and schedule backups remotely
• Central console:   Manage multiple jobs from one location
• Flexibility:   Knowledgeable system administrator can make use of many options
• Simple local or remote restore process:   Uses CD, DVD, PXE (network card boot), OBDR, or USB key
• Boot and backup a failed machine's partition(s) using either image or file level restores
• 100% scriptable backups and restores
• Backup and recover a failed machine using remote tape, Tivoli Storage Manager, or FTP/SFTP devices

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ADVANTAGES OF ULTRABAC IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY? The ability to perform image-based backups of LIVE operating systems to either local tape, remote tape, network UNC paths, SAN/NAS, Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), or FTP devices, using optional encryption. The software also provides critical dissimilar and virtual recoveries, along with the capacity to restore to larger or smaller partitions than the original. Best of all, no matter what size the environment, lightning fast restores are at your fingertips.

WHAT IS IMAGE-BASED DISASTER RECOVERY?

UltraBac Software's disaster recovery technology is based on scheduled snapshots of one or more disk partitions. The snapshot is an exact static mirror image of the partition (frozen at that time), which guarantees a good backup even for files that are open and in use. This technology ensures restoring a failed machine using the absolute minimum time and effort. Image technology is most often used for protecting operating system partitions so that a failed machine can be rapidly returned to full operational capability after becoming unbootable (regardless of the reason). The UBDR software can either operate as a stand-alone application, or can be part of a total solution when integrated with UltraBac file-by-file software. When integrated, both image and file backups are performed during the same backup session, and are written to the same media.

Image technology is extremely fast because it minimizes overhead by bypassing the file system to directly read a disk. To further minimize backup time and space requirements, software compression is automatically invoked. Lastly, a default option skips backing up all unused blocks and non-restorable files on disk (e.g. work & hibernation files). From a practical standpoint, this means that a 40GB OS partition may only require 8-10GB of backup space.

Images can literally be saved to any imaginable location! Using UltraBac's ability to write a backup to every conceivable resource available, you can now protect EVERY server in your network without a tape drive. If a protected machine fails, simply boot from a universal CD, DVD, or USB Key, and restore a 10GB system partition in under 5 minutes!

UltraBac Software's disaster recovery products, UBDR Pro and UBDR Gold, are a form of business continuity insurance that provides protection for key servers and workstations against the worst-case scenario – an unbootable failure. UBDR image technology makes restoring unbootable machines a snap, whether the failure is due hardware or software. Just insert the boot media, press the power button, and follow the prompts. No advance setup or configuration is required.

Ensure the safety and integrity of your data by implementing a total solution that combines UltraBac comprehensive file-by-file backup software with UBDR image-based disaster recovery.