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Do you suspect your running server's disks have read errors?
Added: (Fri Mar 31 2006)
Chief Applications Ltd. the veteran of Data Recovery in Israel has added a new and exciting feature to its BOS family of products.
Up to the present, data recovery for forensic purposes and the complete backup of running hard drives (in desktops and servers) that for different reasons could not be stopped, was impossible.
Chief Developed its own Disk Duplicator, a basic BOS utility that enables complete disk duplication.
The main advantage of this BOS utility resides in the fact that it does not depend on the operating system installed on the original disk. It clones the entire drive to an additional disk, even in the case this additional disk has an operating system installed which won't be recognized by the computer.
This utility enables the creation of corporate critical systems' clones, and allows keeping them as files on the BOS system, in order to bring them back to the hard drive any time, for speedy server recovery.
Even a hard drive with read errors can be duplicated by this utility. The fact means a unique advantage when compared with similar solutions, and is extremely useful in those cases in which it is needed to recover data from damaged drive.
Given this utility does not check the kind of operating system on the drive, it is possible to use it even when using drives on which the operating systems are not recognized by the system.
An additional advantage of the Disk Duplicator utility -coming soon- is to search and replace data while duplicating it.
This ability is handy, for instance, in the creation of a number of identical workstations (with different IP addresses, however). The system will duplicate the original disk to the target disk drive or the original file to the target drive, and while doing so it will change a certain textual value to another one.