Overview

StorageCraft ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 provides fast and reliable disaster recovery, system migration and data protection for Windows servers. ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 provides bare metal recovery of the Windows operating system, applications such as Exchange and SQL and your critical data.

ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 provides hardware independent restore for physical to physical system (P2P) recovery. ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 also supports conversion from physical systems to virtual environments (P2V), virtual environments to physical systems (V2P) and virtual environments to virtual environments (V2V).  ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 is very complementary to VMWare™ and Microsoft™ Virtual Server for quick and reliable disaster recovery and system migration.

Features

ShadowProtect Server Edition 3 provides the following benefits:

• Bare metal recovery of Windows servers in minutes.
• Restore or migrate backup images to and from physical systems and virtual environments (P2V, V2P and V2V).
• Hardware independent restore of backup images to different systems (P2P).
• Full support for online backup of applications such as Exchange and SQL.
• Schedule automatic full and incremental backups.
• Image management to minimize storage consumption and simplify archiving.
• Bootable recovery CD provides automatic hardware detection and network support.
• A simple view to quickly recover files and folders or update backup images.
• Compress and encrypt backup images for efficiency and security.
• ShadowProtect console to simplify backup management across your enterprise.
• Recover your servers remotely.
• Save backup images to USB, Firewire, NAS, SAN or any network location.

Fast and reliable backup and recovery
ShadowProtect allows you to create an exact online backup of your system and data at any point in time. Recover critical data by simply viewing your backup and restoring the files and folders that you need. Use the ShadowProtect Recovery CD for remote or bare metal recovery.

Schedule automatic backups
ShadowProtect provides an easy to use scheduler so that point-in-time backups can be taken automatically while you work. Schedule full or incremental backups of your system and data.

Save backups to any location
ShadowProtect backups can be saved to USB, FireWire, an attached storage device or network location.

View backup files for quick file and folder recovery
ShadowProtect point-in-time backups can be assigned a drive letter as a read-write or read-only volume. The mounting features of ShadowProtect allow you to restore files and folders or update an existing point-in-time backup.

Perform remote or bare metal system recovery
The ShadowProtect Recovery CD allows you to perform a bare metal system restore in minutes. The Recovery CD features allow you to remotely recover your system and data without physically visiting the system.

Requirements

Minimum System Requirements
• Must meet the minimum operating system requirements
• Memory:  At least 256 MB of RAM
• Hard Disk: 12 MB of free space
• CD-ROM or DVD drive

Supported Operating Systems
ShadowProtect supports Windows 32-or 64-bit operating systems
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2003
• Windows Small Business Server 2003
• Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server (SP4 or above)
• Windows Small Business Server 2000
• Windows Vista Home Basic
• Windows Vista Home Premium
• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows XP Media Center
• Windows XP Professional (SP2 or above)
• Windows XP Home (SP2 or above)