Taking Backups on the Fly

Drive Backup Server 2008 creates server disk image and protects your system

againstdata loss. The Server provides you with the restore and recovery

capabilities even from bare-metal. You can reinstate separate files or even the

entire server disk contents without any application or OS. Its intuitive backup

wizard ably guides you through the backup process.

You can also create recovery points through this wizard which you will need

before you make any critical update to server. It also enables a rapid server

recovery as it uses backup images for restoration and this is what minimizes

downtime in comparison with file-based backup solutions. The software also

enables you to create a bootable backup CD/DVD to restore system and data.

Click on backup hard drive or selected partition on the interface. Click on 'Next', and select the drive you want to back up as shown. It supports all commonly used file systems like NTFS, FAT, etc	Choose the 'Backup now' option that starts backing up immediately or the 'Generate script' option to schedule the job to be backed up later

To restore the backed up hard disk or partition, click on 'Restore' hard disks and partitions. This will bring up a wizard that would guide you through the process	Select the image and then define the place where you want to restore it. Here you can't restore a drive image in the same drive. For an image of 9.5 GB, data Wizard took 2.35 mins