Protecting Local Disks - Acer Altos EasyStore User Manual

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.
DiskSafe Express is a software application designed to address this issue. On each
computer where it is installed, DiskSafe Express provides reliable data 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 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
DiskSafe Express performs each subsequent backup, it copies only the data that has
changed since the last time a backup was performed. This also minimizes 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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