The System Snapshot service is a add-on to the Remote Backup Service and employs additional software agents that are loaded onto the server operating system and periodically take entire 'images' of the computer system to an external hard drive. In conjunction with the Remote Backup, the snapshot backups need only be taken weekly or even monthly to capture fundamental changes to your system configuration e.g. updates, new program or application installation, configuration changes. Daily incremental changes to data are captured daily by the Remote Backup and both backups merged in the event of a full system restore. The snapshots are completely portable and enable IT staff to restore a server within hours if not minutes, even to completely different server hardware.

The flexibility that these images provide can enable a business to recover from most types of system hardware failure and bring a server back online with minimum fuss or effort. Images can be copied or restored to a replacement server or even launched in a Virtual Computing environment ensuring that the business experiences only minimal downtime in the event of their server failing.

As with the Remote Backup Service, ITbuilder provides the System Snapshot as a completely managed service providing the external hard drive media and monitoring each image backup for errors.

The charge for System Snapshot is a small monthly  fee per system per month and is a quite insignificant cost compared to the many thousands it can save in lost producitvity caused by unnecessary system downtime.