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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
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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
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Benefits
- Reliably restore anything from a single file to an entire
hard disk
- Hot Backup technology allows live backups without restarting
Windows
- Bare Metal Restore rescues hard drives even if Windows will
not boot
- Cyclic Backup creates and automatically manages a backup
strategy
- Synthetic Backup merges existing backups into a new
image
- Encrypt and protect backup images with password to save your
confidential data
- Secure Partition option keeps backup images safe in a
protected hard drive partition
- Net Burner allows recording to both local and networked
CD/DVD-RW drives
- Scripting Language allows detailed programming and automation
of operations
- Remotely manage Perfect Image Corporate Workstations
- Manageable with Perfect Image Corporate Enterprise Server
Edition
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Supported Hardware
- Dynamic volumes
- Parallel ATA (IDE) HDD, Serial ATA (SATA) HDD
- SCSI HDD
- All levels of SCSI, IDE and SATA RAID controllers
- CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD+/-R (DL)
- USB 1.0/2.0 and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) devices
- IomegaĀ® ZIPĀ®, JazzĀ® and other removable media
- PC card storage devices
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Supported File Systems
- NTFS (v1.2, v3.0, v3.1)
- FAT16, FAT32
- Ext2FS, Ext3FS
- ReiserFS (Backup operations)
- Linux Swap
- HPFS
- Other file systems in Sector-by-Sector mode
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Comparison Table
| Features |
Perfect Image 11 - Workstation |
Perfect Image 11 - Server |
Perfect Image 11 - Enterprise |
| Dynamic Disk Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Scheduled Backup |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cyclic Backup |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Synthetic Backup |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Net Burner Network CD Burning Application |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Scripting Generator and Help |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Manage Workstation Editions |
No |
No |
Yes |
| Manage Server Editions |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| E-mail Progress Notification |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Windows Server and Small Business Server Support |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Pre and post-backup snapshots |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
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