Disaster Recovery - Image Backups

If your computer failed or got a virus today how much time and money would it cost to get it working again? In most cases it will take an entire day or two to get all of the data off of the computer and reinstall all of the programs and settings.

If you have an image backup of your computer it can be restored within an hour depending on how much data you keep.

An Image Backup is a snapshot in time of a computer (desktop, laptop or server).

Here is an example of how an image backup works: An image backup of a computer is taken of all of the data on the hard drive and saved to another hard drive. A week later the computer then gets a nasty root-kit virus that makes the computer unusable. Using the image backup taken the week prior the computer is restored completely. All of the settings and files are restored.

An image backup can be made of the computer manually or automatically.

A great time to make an image backup of a computer is right after one has their computer just the way they like it. Incremental backups can also be made daily.

In order to better protect your computer we would like to make a manual image backup or setup daily automatic backups on your working computer now.


For more information concerning image backups:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/