Not using a good desktop backup software will cost you!
If your desktop machine crashed, would your backup software save the day?
How can you really tell if you are running the best desktop backup software you can available? Simply by asking a series of questions about your backup solution and then you can determine for yourself whether your backup software is the best.
How easy does your backup software install?
Is the software simple to setup or does it require a lot of customizations? In addition, to simplify the job of a network administrator, does it require setup on each computer individually or can it be installed on all desktop machines across the network?
ShadowProtect can be installed on one workstation if need be, or if you if you are a system administrator, you can install on multiple workstations by using the management console in ShadowProtect. You install silently and maintain full management capabilities while having the ease of using one central location for viewing your ShadowProtect setup. Of course, ShadowProtect is so easy to use and so automated there will not be much need to manage it but it is fascinating and easy.
Are you using disk backup or an expensive tape backup system
ShadowProtect images to a bootable drive that has the Windows O/S on the disk as well as all your applications. No need for slow tape backups or installing your OS and other applications one by one, one disk does it all.
What if you had to install to different hardware?
ShadowProtect has a Hardware Independent Restore™ (HIR) feature that allows you to restore to brand new hardware or version of Windows if need be, or even to VM. ShadowProtect can take backup images of your desktop computer as often as every 15 minutes if you like which means your data will be only 15 minutes old (at the most) when you restore!
How granular does your backup software allow you to go?
Of course, ShadowProtect does, simply mount the image file (through a simple right click of the mouse) taken before the deletion of the file and saving it as a drive letter, go to the missing file or folder and drag and drop to the production folder.
In addition, do you have a test lab? ShadowProtect permits you to test new settings on a VM by using a recent ShadowProtect backed up image to virtual boot and then performing and installation of the new application and testing it, thus eliminating the need for a test lab.
So is your software solution the best backup software? We have hardly scratched the surface in this article, there are so many other industry leading features in ShadowProtect that we will discuss at a later time.