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Intel® Entry Storage System SS4000-E User Guide

Protecting Local Disks

Even if most of your data is stored and protected on your storage system, your operating
system files, applications, and many other files still reside on each individual computer in
your network. If one of those local disks fails, it can take many hours to re-install and
reconfigure the operating system and applications on a new or repaired hard disk, and
some files might be completely lost.
Intel® Client Backup and Recovery is a software application designed to address this
issue. On each computer where it is installed, Intel® Client Backup and Recovery
provides reliable data protection and rapid data recovery in the event of a system crash or
disk failure.
Intel® Client Backup and Recovery 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, Intel® Client Backup and Recovery can automatically perform a
backup at regularly scheduled intervals—either once a day or once a week, whichever you
prefer. (You can also disable automatic backups and just perform backups manually at a
time of your choosing.) Once the maximum number of supported backups are saved on
the storage system, the oldest backup is automatically deleted each time a new backup is
performed.
To ensure that valuable storage space isn't used up by duplicate data, when Intel® Client
Backup and Recovery performs each subsequent backup, it copies only the data that has
changed since the last time a backup was performed. This also minimized the impact on
your network. Yet through unique technology on the 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.
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