Section 11.9. Commercial Solutions

11.9. Commercial Solutions

Aside from the free methods described in this chapter, there are a number of inexpensive commercial bare-metal recovery tools. Many of the enterprise-level backup products also provide bare-metal recovery capabilities. Here are some inexpensive (starting at $99) bare-metal recovery tools for Windows:

Acronis (www.acronis.com)

Ghost (www.symantec.com)

Paragon (www.drive-backup.com)

Winternals (www.winternals.com)

Ghost keeps snapshots of critical system files, allowing you to roll back to a known good configuration as long as your hard disk is functional. We found only one inexpensive tool for bare-metal recovery of Linux systems: Storix (http://www.storix.com). For a product that starts at $99, the number of recovery options it offers is incredible.

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