StorageCraft ShadowProtect
What is ShadowProtect?
ShadowProtect is the sector-based backup and disaster recovery solution for all your business data protection needs for a mixed hybrid environment.
- Helps you to meet or improve your recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO).
- Recover files and folders in minutes.
- Restore failed servers in minutes.
- Use patented VirtualBoot technology to boot a backup image into a virtual machine (VM) instantly
ShadowProtect sector-based and image-based backup provide business with several flexible ways to recover reliably.
- Restore a missing file
- Restore an entire data volume
- Restore a failed server’s system to a new physical machine or virtual machine (VM) (P2P, P2V, V2P, V2V).
To reduce unnecessary time, you can use on ShadowProtect’s automated verification of backup images to ensure that it is working and ready to recover.
Regardless of the number of backups, ShadowProtect’s “Set it and Forget it” provides a scalable and easy solution. From large scale deployment and configuration to automated verification and alert notification , ShadowProtect will continue to protect your vital computer systems with little or no human intervention.
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Seven Reasons to Switch ShadowProtect Backup?
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| 6-in-1 protection – backup, replicate, restore, migrate, test and manage | ✔ | ✘ |
| Sector-based backup technology that allows you to back up every 15 minutes or less | ✔ | ✘ |
| Recover files in seconds and entire systems in minutes | ✔ | ✘ |
| No additional agents for AD, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL and Oracle recovery | ✔ | ✘ |
| Pre-stage Server Migrations (P2V, V2V and V2P) with ease using included HeadStart Restore Technology | ✔ | ✘ |
| Instantly virtualize backup images as guest VMs directly on VMware ESXi and Hyper-V hosts | ✔ | ✘ |
| End-to-end business continuity solution across virtual, physical and cloud servers | ✔ | ✘ |
StorageCraft® ShadowProtect® sector-level backup software backs up your organization’s whole Windows IT environment. In addition to reliably backing up everything from systems to data, ShadowProtect software enables swift recovery from disaster as well as headache-free system migration.
ShadowProtect software is one component of the StorageCraft Recover-Ability™ solution, which provides you with all the tools you need to recover your IT systems anytime, anywhere, from any disaster.
StorageCraft Technology Corporation offers several different types of products in the ShadowProtect software line:
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| ShadowProtect Server | ShadowProtect Small Business Server | ShadowProtect Virtual |
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| ShadowProtect Desktop | ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange | ShadowProtect IT Edition |
Each ShadowProtect edition features a unique user license that determines the type(s) of operating systems (OS) it installs on. Managed service providers, IT professionals, and business owners each can select the edition or combination of editions that fits their Windows environment. The exceptions are ShadowProtect IT Edition and ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange.
ShadowProtect IT Edition works on an unlimited number of servers and workstations with any Windows operating system for a specific period of time. As mentioned before, ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange has a different purpose: this software is made specifically for recovering granular data from an Exchange database.
ShadowProtect Feature Comparison
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Product Features
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Back up your entire disk drive, including systems, applications, services, configurations, settings, and data | – | |||||
Save backups to any disk device or any optical media | – | |||||
Back up a non-bootable system before attempting a restore operation | – | – | – | – | – | |
Test backup images to ensure their integrity | – | – | ||||
Schedule backups to occur automatically | – | – | ||||
Schedule regular incremental backups to occur as often as every 15 minutes if desired | – | – | ||||
Recover individual files and folders in minutes | – | |||||
Restore a system to different hardware or to virtual environments | – | |||||
Swiftly boot a backup image as a virtual machine | – | – | ||||
Perform a bare metal restore | – | |||||
Detect and repair boot configuration errors or corrupt hard drives | – | |||||
Use keywords to search mailboxes, email messages, or entire Exchange databases | – | – | – | – | – | |
Recover Exchange emails, email attachments, address book contacts, mailboxes, and more to your production Exchange server or to a .pst file | – | – | – | – | – | |
Migrate a backup image from and to physical and virtual environments | – |  | ||||
ShadowProtect Operating System Compatibility Comparison
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Supported Operating Systems
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Windows Server 2012 R2 x64With and without Hyper-V | – | – | ||||
Windows Server 2012 x64With and without Hyper-V | – | – | ||||
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64With and without Hyper-V | – | – | ||||
Windows Server 2008 x86/x64With and without Hyper-V | – | – | – | |||
Windows Server 2003 R2 x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows Server 2003 x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows 2000 x86Server, Advanced Server (Service Pack 4 or Higher)* | – | – | – | |||
Windows Server 2012 R2 x64Essentials, Foundation | – | – | ||||
Windows Server 2012 x64Essentials, Foundation | – | – | ||||
Windows Small Business Server 2011 x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 x64Essentials | – | – | – | |||
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64Foundation** | – | |||||
Windows Server 2008 x86/x64Foundation** | – | – | ||||
Windows Small Business Server 2008 x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows Small Business Server 2003 x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows 8.1 x86/x64 | – | – | ||||
Windows 8 x86/x64 | – | – | ||||
Windows RT | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Windows 7 x86/x64 | – | – | ||||
Windows Vista x86/x64 | – | – | – | |||
Windows XP x86/x64(Service Pack 2 or Higher) | – | – | – | |||
Windows 2000 x86Professional (Service Pack 4 or Higher)* | – | – | – | |||
Limited Support – contact your sales representative for details
* Windows 2000 support: ShadowProtect supports backup of Windows 2000 environments. However, lack of hardware support and suitable device drivers may make recovery difficult. If you use Windows 2000, make sure you have appropriate hardware and drivers you can use as your recovery target should a disaster happen. (Note: ImageReady technology and VirtualBoot technology do not support Windows 2000; additionally, Windows 2000 doesn’t have a VSS framework or support, so VSS backups are not available in Windows 2000.)