Nine questions you should ask about your recovery software

Companies attempting to save time and money on backup restore, disaster recovery, and high availability should make sure evaluated technologies can answer “yes” to these questions:

1. Does the product take advantage of application‐specific innovations?

2. Is it possible to conduct a live recovery of all or a portion of the application quickly and easily?

3. Will you be able to rollback from bare metal to and from any environment (P2V, P2P, V2P, V2V) to meet disaster recovery requirements?

4. Does the product monitor the health of backups?

5. Will the product significantly shorten your backup window today and into the future through an efficient volume‐based approach?

6. Is data expansion moderated with reduplication and compression?

7. Will the technology handle the range of recovery situations – single e‐mail messages to full‐blown disasters – with reliability, ease and speed?

8. Does the product support continuous export of images to standby or virtual machines?

9. Is the restore process flexible with images transportable to USB, NAS, DAS, and DAN?


Make sure the software in charge of recovering your servers meets all these requirements so that you never lose any data and you can always recover them successfully.