How to Create an Image Backup for Full System Disaster Recovery
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jul 13, 2015, 4:35:42 PM
Disaster recovery planning should be a part of your overall backup plan. You don't want to be kicking yourself for waiting until after your hard drive crashes or some other disaster strikes to finally learn how to create a backup of your entire system. Instead of taking days to manual …
How to do a Bare Metal Restore after a Hard Drive Failure
by Bridget.Giacinto on Sep 30, 2014, 2:15:00 PM
The reality is, that hard drives fail and if you do not perform a backup of your hard drive, you could lose your data. A bare metal restore will allow you to restore your hard drive data to a "bare-metal" system, which does not have any software or operating system installed on it. Th …
How to Create a Boot Disk for Disaster Recovery
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jun 10, 2014, 9:08:34 AM
A boot disk, also know as a boot disc or startup disk, is defined as any digital storage media that contains a small operating system, which allows you to start Windows and execute a utility program, like backup software for example. If your hard disk drive fails, or your operating sy …
How to Create an Image Backup for Disaster Recovery
by Bridget.Giacinto on Jun 10, 2014, 9:08:20 AM
Disaster Recovery image backups create a snapshot of your local hard drive, allowing you to recover your entire computer in the event of a hardware failure, not just your files. Image backups do not need to be performed as often as standard file backups. For most PC users, scheduling …
What is a Bare Metal Restore?
by Bridget.Giacinto on Apr 7, 2014, 9:29:33 AM
Bare metal restore refers to rebuilding a system from a bare metal state (without any OS) in the event of a catastrophe. This type of restore requires you to rebuild your entire system from scratch, including the operating system, software applications, files, settings and system pref …
Not Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan Could Cost You Everything
by Nathan.Fouarge on Mar 13, 2014, 10:01:15 AM
Disaster recovery planning is a very large topic, and data backup and recovery is only one part of it. To give you a real-life example of what this means, consider a recent posting on Reddit. A System Admin receives a ticket saying that the power is out in their office in Kiev and tha …
