Acer Altos EasyStore - Protecting Local Disks

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Protecting Local Disks
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Even if most of your data is stored and pro t ected on your storage system, your
operating system files, applica t ions, and many other files still reside on each
individual
compu t er in your network. If one of those local disks fails, it can t ake
many hours to re-install and reconfigure t he operating system and applications on a
new
or repaired hard disk, and some files migh t be completely lost .
DiskSafe Express is a sof t ware applica t ion designed to address this issue. On each
compu
t er where it is installed, DiskSafe Express provides reliable da t a protection
and rapid data recovery in the event of a system crash or disk failure.
DiskSafe Express protects Windows desktops and laptops by backing up their local
disks
or partitions to the storage system. To make sure that you have recent copies
of your local disk, DiskSafe Express can automatically perform a backup at regularly
scheduled
intervals—either once a day or once a week, whichever you prefer .
Alternatively , you can disable automatic backups and just perform backups
manually at a time o f your choosing. Once the maximum number of supported
backups
are saved on t he storage system, the oldest backup is automatically
deleted
each time a new backup is performed .
Local computer running
DiskSafe Express
®
local disk
LAN
IPStor
®
Express
Storage System
copies of local disk
To ensure tha t valuable storage space isn’ t used up by duplicate data, when
DiskSafe Express performs each subsequent backup, it copies only the data that has
changed since t he last time a backup was performed. This also minimizes t he impact
on your network. Ye t through unique technology on t he storage system, each backup is
a complete point-in-time image. You can view or recover the entire disk or
partition exactly as it existed at a particular date and time.