SQL Virtual Restore™ 2.0 from $495
Rapidly mount live, fully functional databases direct from backups
- Save time: turn your backup into a live database, without a physical restore, and get quick and easy access to your data.
- Save space: the virtual database carries a significantly smaller footprint than a regular physical restore.
- Recreate a live, fully functional database: databases mounted with SQL Virtual Restore support both read/write operations.
- Smart object level recovery: SQL Virtual Restore is ACID compliant and gives you access to full, transactionally consistent data, with all objects visible and available.
- Quick and reliable backup verification: run DBCC CHECKDB against the database mounted from your backup, and you will be able to confirm that your backup file is not corrupt, without needing the space or time required for a full restore.
- Rapid restore: turn your backup into a fully functional, live database – without a physical restore – and get quick and easy access to your data. Mounting your backup as a live database carries a near-zero additional storage footprint and is considerably faster than a full restore.
- Multiple backup types: Just point SQL Virtual Restore at full, differential or transaction log backups created with native SQL Server, SQL Backup Pro (version 6), or SQL HyperBac.
- Support for read/write operations: Behaving just like a normal, live database, databases mounted with SQL Virtual Restore are ideal for development and test work in environments where storage space is at a premium.
- Smart object level recovery: gain access to full, transactionally consistent data, with all objects visible and available, so you can run recovery operations from your point-in-time backup.
- Easy backup verification: The database you mount with SQL Virtual Restore behaves like a normal live database, meaning that a DBCC CHECKDB command will fully verify the integrity of your backup file.
- Flexible data access: SQL Virtual Restore supports any data access method, including SQL Server Management Studio, ADO.NET and SQL Query Analyser.
- SQL Virtual Restore Wizard: Use SQL Virtual Restore via T-SQL's native RESTORE DATABASE and RESTORE LOG commands, or use the SQL Virtual Restore wizard to mount your backups in just four steps.
- Declarative Referential Integrity: SQL Virtual Restore will enforce the referential integrity of your database, so data that is not compliant with your business rules cannot be inserted into your virtually restored database.
- Powered by HyperBac®: SQL Virtual Restore uses the original HyperBac technology.
- Walk-through 1
- Mounting your backup as a live database
Mount a backup file as a fully functional database in just four simple steps using the SQL Virtual Restore Wizard.
- Walk-through 2
- Verifying your backup
Mount your backup as live database and run DBCC CHECKDB against it, and you will be able to confirm that your backup file is fully functional and not corrupt without needing the space or time required for a full restore.
- Walk-through 3
- Performing object level recovery
Gain access to full, transactionally consistent data, with all objects visible and available, so you can run recovery operations from your point-in-time backup.
SQL Virtual Restore presents a quick and easy way to mount your backup as a live, fully functional database without the time or space needed for a physical restore. The time it takes to mount your backup is typically on par with a RESTORE VERIFYONLY operation, but with all the benefits a full restore would bring you.
SQL Virtual Restore is powered by the original HyperBac® filter driver compression and encryption technology, industry-proven with customers in the Fortune 100, FTSE 100 and government, healthcare, financial and technology sectors. SQL Virtual Restore, like all other products powered by HyperBac, is installed at the system layer with a single component on the target server. No hooks or links into your SQL Server instances and no extended stored procedures are required, providing a zero-touch deployment.
SQL Virtual Restore is the only third-party virtual database solution on the market that instructs SQL Server to interpret your MDF and LDF files. This means that there will never be any conflicts between how SQL Server and SQL Virtual Restore interpret your backup file as SQL Virtual Restore only handles the mounting of your backup file, and not the interpretation of your data.
Another advantage of SQL Virtual Restore is that it takes into account all rollback and other transactions in the backup, making the mounted database ACID compliant and reinforcing the referential integrity of your data.
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Industry-proven technology
SQL Virtual Restore lets you mount live, fully functional databases direct from backups – without the need for a physical restore. Powered by industry-proven HyperBac technology, it presents a new, smart and safe approach to object level recovery, backup verification, and fine-tuning schema, data and configuration changes in environments where storage space is at a premium.
Full support for read/write operations
With full support for read and write operations, the databases you mount with SQL Virtual Restore behave in every way like a live, fully functional database and are ideal for efficient database development and testing work. The near-zero additional storage footprint of the databases you mount with SQL Virtual Restore enables you to replicate your full production environment - but with significant storage and time savings.
Verify your backups
SQL Virtual Restore's ability to save you time and storage space over a full physical restore also eases the essential task of verifying your backups. With large backups, a physical restore can take 30 hours or more and require considerable storage for the restored file. With SQL Virtual Restore, you can mount your backup file as a live database in less time and with almost no additional storage space. This enables you to run DBCC CHECKDB against the virtually restored database to gain full confidence in the integrity of your backup file.
ACID compliant databases
A further advantage of SQL Virtual Restore is that all data in the mounted database is transactionally consistent and ACID compliant, with full support for referential integrity checks.
Support for different backup types
To mount the backup as a fully functional database, simply point SQL Virtual Restore at full, differential or transaction log backups created with SQL HyperBac, SQL Backup Pro (version 6), or native SQL Server.
Seamless integration with the way you work
SQL Virtual Restore is fully scriptable with native T-SQL RESTORE DATABASE and RESTORE LOG commands, or you can use the SQL Virtual Restore wizard to access your database in four simple steps. You can access and query your virtually restored databases with SQL Server Management Studio, Query Analyzer and ADO.NET, so there is no need to change the way you work.








