Best Practices Guides

The following best practices guides are available for download.

• ShadowProtect and Active Directory restores
  This best practices guide will cover how ot perform the restore of Active Directory (AD) objects when using ShadowProtect to protect a Domain Controller (DC).
  
  
• Microsoft SQL Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2008
  This best practices guide will cover the configuration of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 application servers to achieve maximum performance and efficiency when being backed up by ShadowProtect.
  
  
• ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange
  This best practices guide will cover the configuration of ShadowProtect Granular Recovery for Exchange (GRE).
  
  
• Building a DR appliance in the enterprise space
  This best practices guide will cover building a Disaster Recovery (DR) appliance in the enterprise space. The enterprise space, from StorageCraft's perspective, is defined as any network with more than 20 servers.
  
  
• Building a DR appliance in the SMB space
  This best practices guide will cover building a Disaster Recovery (DR) appliance in the SMB space. What is SMB? The Small to Medium Business (SMB) can normally be described as follows: small has less than 50 employees and medium has less than 500 employees.
  
  
• ShadowControl ShadowStream Server Version 5
  This best practices guide will cover the operations of ShadowControl ShadowStream Server (ShadowStream).
  
  
• ShadowControl iFTP Version 5
  This best practices guide will cover how to configure iFTP replication in ShadowControl ImageManager (ImageManager).
  
  
• ShadowControl ImageManager Version 5
  This best practices guide will cover the operations of ShadowControl ImageManager (ImageManager).
  
  
• Configuring ShadowProtect and Windows
  This best practices guide will cover configuring ShadowProtect and Windows to achieve maximum performance and results in your deployments.
  
  
• HeadStart Restore to VMware ESX
  This best practices guide will cover the methodology of using ShadowControl ImageManager (ImageManager) to perform an automatic or push HeadStart Restore (HSR) to VMware ESX (ESX) or VMware ESXi (ESXi).
  
  
• ShadowControl ImageManager Server Tuning
  The scope of this document is designed to supply specific server configuration tuning information to allow ImageManager to perform optimally. This is to the exclusion of other applications that may be installed on the host concerned.
  
  
• Manual HeadStart Restore
  This best practice guide will cover the methodology to perform a manual or pull HeadStart Restore (HSR) from the ShadowProtect recovery CD. You can perform a pull HSR to affect a recovery or migration from P2P, P2V, V2V and V2P.
  
  
• Hardware Independent Restore
  This best practice guide will cover the methodology to adhere to when performing a Hardware Independent Restore (HIR) or a restore of any volume for that matter. HIR is the process of recovering a system from one set of hardware to another set of hardware, or to a virtual environment. You can perform a HIR to affect a recovery from P2P, P2V, V2V and V2P.
  
  
• Microsoft Hyper-V
  The scope of this document is designed to provide specific configuration information conducive to trouble free ShadowProtect backups on a Hyper-V host. Areas covered will include the planning stage, configuration stage and finally implementing a backup strategy.
  
  
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
  This document is designed to supply specific information so that backup operators can make a detailed, informed decision when configuring ShadowProtect backups of their Exchange servers. Areas covered will include moving the Exchange databases from their default locations, how to name folders, how to setup ShadowProtect and then considerations when setting up DAG. The Exchange 2003/2007 best practice guide is required background reading.
  
  
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003-2007
  This document is designed to supply specific information so that backup operators can make a detailed, informed decision when configuring ShadowProtect backups of their Exchange servers. Areas covered will include Disks, Disk Queue Lengths (DQL) and the Exchange installation.
  
  
• ShadowProtect VirtualBoot Technology
  VirtualBoot is a technology that provides an easy mechanism to use ShadowProtect backup files to very quickly test your backups or to perform a temporary virtualisation of a failed server as part of a Business Continuity Plan (BCP). This guide is designed to cover the entire VirtualBoot process as well as pre-requisites and suggestions for configuration of the physical host that will run Oracle VirtualBox and the ShadowProtect VirtualBoot process.
  
  

All the guides are combined in this single zipped file.