Disk to disk backup provides enhanced performance and reliability, and when used in conjunction with tape-based backup, provides a comprehensive data protection capability. Options to choose from include:

Virtual Disk Library (VDL)
Operating exactly like an actual tape library, NetVault: Backup VDL offers the same advantages of tape, with the additional merits of disk's high speed access and low cost. The integrated tape library emulation on disk VDL is a standard feature of NetVault: Backup.

Benefits:
 Enhanced Administrator Productivity
 Increased Automation

Shared Virtual Disk Library (SVDL)
SVDL extends the VDL in SAN environments by eliminating the requirement that a single node have the control of a virtual tape library. The Shared Virtual Disk Library is designed to allow the administrator to create a virtual disk library and share it with multiple nodes.

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Open System SnapVault (OSSV)
SnapVault is a disk-based storage backup feature of Network Appliance's Data ONTAP software that enables data contained on a primary filer and primary Open System (UNIX, Windows and Linux) to be backed up to a central, secondary Netapp storage system in a quick and efficient manner.

Benefits:
 Centralized Management
 Integrated Protection

NetVault: Replicator
For the highest levels of availability, disaster recovery and business continuity, the NetVault: Replicator product line provides continuous, cross-platform data replication for heterogeneous IT environments over standard IP networks. With NetVault: Replicator, customers can centrally manage both real-time and scheduled replication across multiple sites for a wide variety of server platforms and storage devices. This unique flexibility reduces deployment costs and TCO by enabling customers to create a tiered solution that matches system and network resources to the value of the data.

While data protection has become more critical, the rate of data growth has continued to explode and the management of it has become more complicated. New and evolving technologies that are designed to address the access and availability all this data have increased the complexity of the data protection environment. This complexity leads to increased costs, risks and administration challenge. The challenge for administrators is ensuring that their data is properly protected without increasing the cost or number of resources required to manage it.BakBone believes the key to a successful data protection software deployment is providing customers a holistic view of their data protection environment, as well as the ability to centrally administer it.This results in improved staff productivity and operational efficiency.

NetVault: Report Manager provides file system and backup reporting for single or multi-server environments from one common interface. Tight integration with NetVault: Backup offers a single view into storage operations allowing users to proactively manage today’s growing storage and data protection environments as a whole.

Powerful, yet easy-to-use and deploy, NetVault: Report Manager is comprised of three components that can be licensed either separately or together:
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ShadowProtect Server Edition provides the following advantages:
 Create online server backups with zero downtime
 Backup only changed data for minimal storage consumption
 Backup image consolidation for simple management
 Schedule full or incremental backups
 Recover your servers remotely
 Mount point-in-time backups for simple file and folder recovery
 Update your point-in-time backups
 Bare metal server recovery in minutes
 Backup to any disk device including USB, Firewire, attached storage devices such as NAS and SAN and any network location.

ShadowProtect Desktop Edition provides the following advantages:
 Create online backups while you work
 Schedule automatic backups
 Restore your system to an exact point-in-time
 View backup files for quick file and folder recovery
 Save backup files to any attached storage device or network location
 Remotely recover your system and data
 Quick and simple bare metal system recovery

ShadowProtect IT provides the following advantages:
 Supports hardware independent restore for physical to physical (P2P) system recovery
 Supports physical to virtual (P2V), virtual to physical (V2P) and virtual to virtual (V2V)      sytem migration.
 No software installation required.
 Unlimited use on servers, desktops and laptops.
 Bare metal recovery in minutes.
 Create online or cold state backup images.
 Simple view to quickly recover files or folders.
 Mount backup images for file and folder updates.
 Compress and encrypt backups for efficiency and security.
 Configuration tools to manage domains, mapped drives and network resources.
 Bootable recovery CD based on Windows Vista, includes automatic hardware detection.
 Visual partitioning support.
 Remote management of recovery environment

Volume Snapshot Manager revolutionizes snapshot through its Logical Volume Capture and Dynamic Store technologies. A superior volume snapshot and open file management solution for storage, data protection, disaster recovery, backup providers and enterprise.

Volume Snapshot Manager provides the following features:
 Provides open file volume-based snapshots
 API for simple integration to backup and disaster recovery applications
 Snapshot multiple volumes simultaneously. Critical for applications such as databases that span multiple volumes
 Mountable snapshot support
 Supports direct access or drive letter access to snapshots
 Hot rollback support
 Data write redundancy elimination
 Read-only or read-write volume support
 Windows Management Interface (WMI) support

Volume Snapshot Manager with ColdSnap provides the most flexible and reliable methods to backup your systems. ColdSnap creates a volume snapshot during boot time that is available for backup once the system is online. This method eliminates the costly downtime normally needed for offline cold state backups.

ColdSnap is StorageCraft's revolutionary new product that takes a snapshot of your Windows volume(s) during boot time. Avoid booting into another operating system or waiting for a large backup or an image file to write to disk before returning the system to production.

ColdSnap provides the following features:
 Captures a snapshot of your volume(s) during boot time
 ides direct or drive letter access to snapshot once system is online
 Snapshot multiple volumes simultaneously
 Avoid costly downtime due to offline backups and imaging