The job can also be run at regular intervals using the built-in scheduler.

A wizard pops up to assist in selecting an entire hard disk or a partition and choosing a destination that can be the capsule, a local or network drive, or a rewritable CD or DVD drive. The latter allows you to designate a partition that can’t be accessed by the OS or any other application for storing image files. Furthermore, it isn’t unique, as Acronis’ Secure Zone feature is virtually identical. If the hard disk or server goes belly-up, the entire capsule goes with it. It’s a great idea, although we wouldn’t recommend using this as your only backup destination. It remains hidden from the resident OS and can be used to restore the system drive in the event of a failure. This is a separate partition that can be created on the system disk or another local drive and is totally independent of the active file system. SE can write images to local and network drives, and also has a backup capsule option. On paper, SE offers a good range of features for the price, as it supports basic and dynamic disks, has the ability to perform full and incremental image tasks, and has a script interpreter that allows many tasks to be automated.

As with Symantec’s software, Drive Backup 7 Server Edition (SE) focuses purely on securing servers and providing disaster-recovery capabilities by capturing hard disk images in real-time and writing them either to hard disk, or to a CD or DVD.

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