Intelligent Disaster Recovery
The PowerVault DL2100– Powered by Symantec Backup Exec offers the industry’s only fully inte- grated backup-to-disk solution with software factory installed. Dell and Symantec have co- developed this offering to give you easier management capabilities of the backup-to-disk environ- ment. It’s an ideal way for any IT department to achieve faster, more reliable backups and re- stores. In addition, the appliance includes system level disaster recovery capabilities designed to recover failed systems no matter the cause.
When a network server fails due to human error, a hardware failure, or a major disaster, the sys- tem must be carefully recovered before the applications and backed-up data can be restored. Disaster recovery technology strategically complements backup and restore technology. Whereas, the primary purpose of backup and restore is to restore applications and data, the pri- mary purpose of disaster recovery is to restore the computing environment itself. Backup and restore assumes that a computing environment exists that will support data recovery. Disaster recovery ensures that the environment is available and minimizes the amount of time required to bring network systems back to full functionality.
Before the development of automated disaster recovery technology, manual disaster recovery had been labor intensive, vulnerable to human error, a lengthy process, and costly in terms of loss of both productivity and revenue. Moreover, manual disaster recovery often fails because of a lack of preparation, poorly documented configuration data, and lack of a formal process to complete the task. In today’s environments, changes in the operating system increase the need for a uni- form, automated process to secure the operating environment and recovery of business critical data.
The PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance features disaster recovery capabilities powered by Symantec Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option. The Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option eliminates the need to manually re-install the entire operating system after a system crash. Using the created bootable media, the Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option allows an administra- tor to bring a Windows-based system back online fast by restoring data from the last complete backup set including full, differential, incremental, working set, and modified file backups.
