MJC Group's New Guardian ImageManager Enterprise

Aug. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Guardian ImageManager Enterprise dramatically decreases the amount of time required to restore Windows systems and improves central management of Guardian backups http://www.mjcgroup.co.uk/guardian-data-recovery.php

Guardian ImageManager Enterprise includes a feature called HeadStart Restore (HSR), which allows IT managers to automate recovery – getting servers back up and running in a matter of mere minutes, rather than hours. IT managers create a system restore job from their Guardian Server or Guardian Small Business Server scheduled backups. The HSR job begins the recovery process immediately – and the restore job is updated with incremental changes throughout the day. Following a disaster, the administrator is able to finalise the restore and get the server online again very quickly.

“System restores often involve terabytes of data, which means a realistic RTO is hours,” said Richard Eagles, Technical Manager at MJC Group. “With HeadStart Restore, we’ve drastically reduced the time it takes to recover your systems and data because most of the system and data recovery occurred before there was even a failure.”

How HSR Works

To prepare a server for HSR, the IT administrator sets up a system restore job in Guardian ImageManager Enterprise, which begins recovery right away.

Any incremental changes to the backup are also sent to the system restore job and applied. The Lag Time Apply feature in HSR also allows administrators to delay incremental changes – to account for corruption from malware or a virus. By default, this is set to three days, but this can be changed to suit IT requirements.

In the event of a disaster, the administrator finalises the restore – which usually takes seconds to apply the incremental updates – then prepares the virtual environment, runs Guardian Hardware Independent Restore technology, reboots the server, and is back up and running. The elapsed time is several minutes, not several hours.  


Additional Features

Guardian ImageManager Enterprise also includes replication technology, to allow you to send your backup images to a separate location, on-site or off-site. Once you’ve configured replication, you can send backup images to one or multiple locations. This feature also lets you save backups to an off-site location to meet compliancy and archival requirements.
In addition, Guardian ImageManager Enterprise allows administrators to verify and re-verify Guardian backup image files, consolidate backup image files to minimise storage usage and streamline management and set up email notification to track the status of backup jobs.  

Guardian ImageManager Enterprise has the following features:

•         HeadStart Restore
•         Lag Time Apply
•         Image replication
•         Image verification and re-verification
•         Image consolidation
•         E-mail notification

For additional information about MJC Group’s Guardian ImageManager Enterprise, please e-mail guardian@mjcgroup.co.uk, call 0845 2718000 or visit: http://www.mjcgroup.co.uk/index.php

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