Regardless of the size of an organization or the nature of the business, the ability to consistently backup and recover data remains at the heart of data protection strategy. One important consideration often overlooked is bare metal recovery or the ability to quickly rebuild a failed disk drive. NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery significantly reduces the time required to recover a failed disk drive and restore operations. By automating system recovery – including recovery of operating systems, network settings, system settings, applications, disk partitions and data – NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery provides confidence that the disk rebuild will be done correctly the first time.

NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery significantly reduces the time required to rebuild a disk and restore operations. While a typical bare metal recovery can easily consume an entire day; using NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery, the task of rebuilding a disk can be reduced to a matter of hours – helping to minimize downtime and ensure user productivity.

Highly susceptible to human errors, the process of bare metal includes many manual steps – each requiring input of correct values to ensure success upon the first attempt. NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery automates the process – eliminating the guesswork. By leveraging online or offline backup to provide protection down to the partition level, NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery provides the convenience of recovering a system that has no functional operating system.

NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery is tightly coupled with NetVault: Backup which provides automatic integration with a wide range of backup devices. Not only can you be assured that your critical system settings are being captured on a regular basis, but you can also take comfort in the fact that your bare metal recovery images are being stored off-site. Taking this even further, when combined with NetVault: Real-Time Data Protector and NetVault: Backup Application Plugin Modules (APMs), NetVault: Bare Metal Recovery provides an added level of protection in the fight to ensure business continuity.