HOSTING WEEK May 29, 2006
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Insure the safety of your Linux server with this Acronis backup software that receives our Editor's Choice Award for performance and reliability
The software provided a 100-percent accuracy rate when restoring the data.When you use your Linux-based computer system as a server there is the need to have a competent backup of the operating system and files. Not only does it take time to rebuild the operating system, chances are you'll be missing data and other files as well. Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux is a powerful software package that prevents this from happening and it wins our Editor's Choice Award for performance and reliability. With the number of viruses that are out on the Internet, as well as malware and worms, there is always the chance that your Linux server could be corrupted. There are also times when we as computer users make a mistake with the server to render it useless. The Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux makes the job of restoring your system to a known good state very easy and affordable. The product can save the image onto networked hard drives or attached storage devices, Iomega ZIP or JAZZ drives, DVD or CD drives and supports all levels of SCSI and RAID controllers. The supported Linux operating systems available that will work with this version of Acronis' True Image software include Fedora Core 1 & 2, Red Hat 9, Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0, SuSE, Mandriva and more. The company is also in the process of making it available with others as well. Supported file systems include FAT 16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2 & Ext3, Linux SWAP, XFS, JFS and ReiserFS. The flexibility of this product when it comes to the various styles of backups is impressive. Full disk imaging of an active system is probably its strongest point although you can also perform both incremental and differential backups as well. Acronis' Active Restore feature lets you reboot from a previously saved image. File-based backups are possible when needed and you can save the data as compressed if desired. The time it takes to backup and restore a server image will really be dependent on the media used, the speed of the hard drive and the speed of the network if used with that type of storage device. When tested in our lab for performance we averaged about 2.1-gigabytes per minute using a 7200-RPM SATA2 hard drive with fairly large file sizes. The restore backup that we performed had a 100-percent accuracy rate, which we think is quite reliable. The cost of the Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux package directly from the company is $699 and $399 if you're upgrading from the previous version. More information, specifications and customer testimonials are available on their web site at www.acronis.com.
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