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Fire, Theft or a System Crash will affect your business - make the necessary contingency plans now!!
Disaster Recovery (DR) has never been high on the list of SME priorities when in fact, it should be at the top! Computer Architects offers DR solutions which are cost effective and “work” when its needed most, when a catastrophe occurs. There are various methods of implementing a DR Plan and one of the most successful methods is making use of “Ghost” (click here for software link).
The conventional method of resolving a disaster occurrence, has been to reload the computer from scratch once the replacement has arrived. If one buys preloaded operating system (OS) machines, then the original programs still have to be loaded, if the disks are still available. If again it is a server, then the directory shares have to be re-created as well. All this takes an exorbitant amount of time and if you have more than one server, the time is at least doubled. I hope you are beginning to get a picture of what your scenario could be??
Ghost is a piece of software that takes a “snapshot” of your entire hard drive, which then can be saved in almost any location. Ghost has predominantly been used for hard drive crashes in the past. However new innovations in restoring the snapshot data have been realized and it is now possible to restore the snapshot onto almost any other computer. The trick is to re-install the hardware drivers for the new computer during the restore of the old hard drive.
Restoring a Ghost snapshot even with re-loading drivers, will only take between 2-4 hours (depending on the size of the hard drive snapshot). Restoring using the conventional method will and can take up to 6-8 hours per machine, again depending on the size of the hard drive and the number of programs that need to be re-loaded.
· Limited Downtime after a disaster situation.
· Simple to set up and configure, just as easy to restore.
Andy van Eyk
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E-mail: andy@comparch.co.za
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