Avanquest Perfect Image 11 - Server

Perfect Image 11 - Server: When Business Downtime is not an Option Perfect Image Corporate Server delivers a powerful, comprehensive, cost-effective and reliable solution to system protection and disaster recovery needs for all business networks.

It is essential that today's businesses have a functioning IT rescue strategy. Perfect Image simplifies the process by ensuring that effective backup strategies are created and executed with the minimum of both user and technician interaction. It's reliable, cost-effective and comes with outstanding UK support, ensuring minimum downtime should disaster strike.

Features
Real-time Hard Drive Imaging
Perfect Image utilises Hot Backup and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (MS VSS) technology, to allow applications to remain live during hard drive backup ensuring business can continue as usual

Intelligent Backup
-Cyclic backup system automatically processes an effective backup strategy
-Differential backup option produces smaller backups by saving only drive changes
-Synthetic backup allows merging of differential and base images into a new image
-Backup to local or network drives
-Backup to a hidden, secure hard drive partition
-Backup selected="selected" partitions or entire drives into a single image
-Backup to local and network CD/DVDs (or ISO image files), USB or FireWire devices
-Virtual Operations let the user to review procedures before applying changes
-Skip OS auxiliary files option allows skipping files such as pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys

Perfect Restores
Perfect Image provides multiple restore options including:
-Choose from file, folder, partition, entire hard drive or even MBR restore
-Boot directly from a protected hard drive partition and perform all restore functions
-Boot from the powerful recovery CD to access local and network backups
-Create custom boot media containing backup images
-Bare Metal Restore
-Resize during restore to accommodate hard drive changes

Archiving Control
-Compress archives to reduce image storage requirements
-Adjustable compression settings (none/fast/normal/best)
-Encrypt and password protect archives
-Archive integrity verification
-Automatic backup archive database helps manage backup images
-Mount archives to selectively extract files
-Adjustable archive splitting options
-E-mail notification of process completion
-Powerful scripting system allows detailed automation of procedures of almost any complexity.

Hard Drive Cloning
Cloning hard drives, as well as providing an alternative method of hard drive backups for security purposes, is of great use when setting up similar computers. Perfect Image can successfully transfer all on-disk information, including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures, for maintaining the operating system's functionality. Perfect Image provides a full set of cloning options, including:
-Clone all sectors or perform an incremental clone
-Remove free blocks between partitions
-Clone data and resize partitions proportionally
-Perform surface test scans
-Verify integrity of the new copy