‘Livewire’ bridges gap between backup, restore and failover technologies

Double-Take Software has announced the release of Livewire, which provides continuous full system image backup to a centralised disk based recovery server that can be local or at a remote site. Because it is a full system image, everything on the protected server including data, applications, operating system and configuration information is continuously replicated to the repository server allowing that entire server to be easily restored to its most recent state or to a previous point in time snapshot. Livewire can restore server images to dissimilar physical hardware or can automatically provision a virtual machine and restore a server image into it with a few simple steps.

Double-Take Software designed Livewire specifically to protect servers assigned to lower tiers of the disaster recovery plan. These servers and the data on them are still important to the business, but they are not the first priority to recover in a time of disaster. Traditionally, the lower recovery priority on these servers has relegated them to tape backup, which requires a lengthy and manual tape restoration process, including the loss of any changes made since the last backup. Servers protected by Livewire are kept up to date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours – or less, depending on the size of the server to recover.

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•Date: 18th Sept 2008• Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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