CDP Universal Restore

 

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When disaster, theft, or catastrophic failure makes a mission-critical laptop, desktop or server system unviable, an IT administrator or service provider can apply SonicWALL® Bare Metal Recovery to recreate the entire system from a backed-up disk image. In order to rapidly get needed businesses systems back up and running during an emergency, administrators may also need to be easily recover an entire computer disk image to any other available machine that is on hand.

SonicWALL® Universal Restore.

SonicWALL® Universal Restore, an add-on module for SonicWALL® Bare Metal Recovery (SBMR) software, allows administrators to quickly and easily recover server images to dissimilar physical or virtual hardware regardless of make, model or installed components. Universal Restore enables IT administrators to take the last known clean image from the source machine and import drivers associated with the new machine into the restore process. And, because the image is captured at the disk sector level, it already includes all of the configuration, application and user files, so a business network can be fully up and operational quickly and with minimal effort.

SonicWALL Universal Restore prepares IT administrators for any unforeseen event, so that no matter what type of disaster occurs, they will be able to quickly restore mission-critical server images to ensure the ongoing viability of the business.

Features and benefits.

• Streamlines disaster recovery and business continuity initiatives by providing easy, rapid and flexible restoration of mission-critical server images across a wide range of platforms
• Integrates with SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery Server software to create bootable media with a UR option.
• Restores a disk image to either identical or dissimilar hardware providing disaster recovery in either physical or virtual environments.
• Easily automates backups according to group, time or scheduled events.
• Faster incremental backups contain only data changed since the last full or incremental backup.
• VSS Snapshot Service safely suspends all application and cache activity during data capture, ensuring reliable backup of dynamic database applications such as Exchange, SQL and Oracle.
• BMR images can be mounted to a file system as a virtual drive, permitting users to open, create, save, copy, move, and delete backed up files or folders, or alternately can be mounted in read-only mode.
• Reduces infrastructure investment because it can restore to any hardware, and it requires fewer hot spares.
• Promotes improved allocation of personnel through ease-of-use, allowing less-experienced administrators to restore servers while more senior administrators can resolve the underlying system failure.
• User-originated drivers inserted automatically or by manual override.
• Easy-to-use wizard-driven interface minimizes training and ramp-up, helping to best leverage available IT resources in disaster recovery scenarios.
• Preserves systems configurations, eliminating the need to rejoin domains or remap network drives.
• Support for BartPE and WinPE pre-installation environments, allowing servers (Windows XP/Windows Server 2003) and workstations (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista) to be booted via network PXE, CD-ROM, DVD or a USB drive.

Easy 5-step restoration.

You can restore an image to any hardware in five easy steps:

1. Boot into our recovery environment.
2. Select the image to restore and the replacement system.
3. Universal Restore initiates restore process.
4. Universal Restore detects machine type and installs appropriate Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). Universal Restore detects hard disk controllers (SCSI and IDE) and other drivers. Prompts user for driver locations or prompts user for driver locations.
5. The machine reboots. Once this process has completed, you have a working system on your replacement machine. No reinstallation of the operating system or applications is required. No re-configuration to join the network is required, as the product retains the Security Identifier (SID) and network information during recovery.

Specifications.

Operating systems for deployment:

• Windows Professional 2000 SP4/ Professional XP SP2
• 32-bit and 64-bit processors
• Windows Home Server
• Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server
• Windows 2003 Server/Advanced Server
• Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Windows Server 2008 (Standard)

SonicWALL Bare Metal Recovery bootable version enables disk-level backup and recovery on a computer running any PC-based operating system.