StorageCraft
Here is my first non OSS entry and I think it is a good one. Not too long ago we used to sell Veritas BackupExec to cover the backup needs of our clients. When Symantec bought Veritas we knew that the great program and service we had experienced would eventually be replaced by the monolith crap support that Symantec is famous for. It did not take long and we started looking for a different alternative for backups at our client sites. Enter Storagecraft!
After trying out other backup solutions, none that delivered a worthwhile backup experience we stumbled onto StorageCraft only expecting the same disappointment that we had experienced with other solutions. Boy where we wrong! This is one piece of software well worth the expense it comes with. Backups with StorageCraft to network shares were not only fast but very reliable, the same was true to a local hard drive and to a USB hard drive. We tried to make this fail, it didn't! Restoring from an Image is just as fast as backing it up and in all our trials it never failed.
You can mount an image as a drive to restore files within the image back to the live system or you can restore the system entirely from the image. Since the backups are based on an initial full backup and subsequent incremental backups as often as you want them, you can restore to any given point in time from your images; all hell broke loose and you want to restore to last night's full backup? Sure thing! A user deleted some critical stuff that had been edited an hour ago and you want to recover that so you don't loose all the work? Sure thing too!
Going from a real system to a virtual machine? No sweat, StorageCraft takes care of that too. Oh, you want to go from a virtual machine to a real system? No big deal either. This thing handles it every time.
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