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Fine Soft Studio Backup Manager enables robust backup of files and ensures that all your important data will be preserved.

Business Description

May be you don't care but your files are always in danger. Sudden lost of data is very expensive. Files on which you spent days, weeks or months can be lost in several seconds if you don't use reserve copying. This also may happen when new files overwrite the old ones. It is enough to lost important files one time in order to appreciate proper Backup Software usage.

In current days size of hard drives becomes very big (300 GB is standard), chance to lose data - gets much bigger, effort to keep HDD from physical or logical corruption is very high, for example time to run CheckDisk or SmartDrive utilities for 300 Gb HDD is almost one night. Data can be lost on account of HDD physical corruption, file system crash, virus damage, user misapplication, accidental removal, etc. Another point is version tracking. If your files are frequently changing or moving then you need reliable tracking system.

We have investigated current backup management systems and no one satisfied our needs. All of them lack functionality that we need.

So challenge was to develop backup manager that does all work concerned with backup in flexible, adjustable, intelligent and simple way.

Solution and key benefits

We developed our own Backup Manager that complies with all our demands and substantially exceeds functionality of other similar tools.

Our Backup Manager works with multiple computers. It has simplified user interface so it is easy to assign on which computer backup software should run
Backup Manager allows you to flexibly control of what to backup. That reduces the volume of backups, saves disk space and decreases backup time. Load on file system, network and CPU is small
Backup mode is incremental – it tracks different versions of a file
Backup Manager allows quick automatic or manual recovery
It is easy to integrate our Backup Manager with existing environment - local net, SQL databases, updates notification system etc.)

Detailed features

Main features of Backup Manager developed by Fine Soft Studio are:

It uses incremental backup mode. Stores latest copy of a file and keeps history of file modification. You can see or compare file history - when file have been updated, who has updated it and what have been changed
It archives backup files. But Backup Manager refreshes only archives for files in which some changes were made
It works effectively. Work load on file system, network, CPU is small. There are options to control work load
No installation is required on client computers to be backuped
Server side components can be set on one server or multiple servers for dynamic load balancing purposes
Setup is very easy - just copy few files and link scheduled task
You can set what to backup and on which computers
"Files filter" - supports filter by masks, attributes, extensions. It is possible to set both - "Include" - include if match, and "Exclude" - exclude if match
Backup Manager is integrated with SQL database. DB structure is simple, so you can integrate with it. It is easy using SQL console to:
- configure notifications based on important files changes
- automated file management - add info of what should be backed up, remove files or old versions
Backup Archives have simple structure. It is easy to manually recover changes without use of special tools
Backup Archives & DB structure are fault resistant. Tool has no key component which can cause full backup to crash, so if any backup file will fail only info stored in it will be lost and no other files will be affected
efficient work with files of different sizes:
- very small files with size less then 4 Kb
- big files - 10 Mb and more
- very big files - more then 2 Gb
You can set to keep all archives or some dirs/files to use secure backups. So even if somebody will get direct access to backups - he will not be able to get any data from them
Access to database records is under control by row level permissions – for example you can configure access for confidential or financial files
Supported backup of backup (BoB) with possibility to store copy of Backup on another storage or remote network with efficient & secure changes synchronization
Backup Manager has administrative & user tools (through remote GUI or configurable web-based interface), visual comparison of what was changed and when
It tracks history of file copy/rename. For example - if file «a.txt» has been renamed to "b.txt" or when file "b.txt" is new copy of file "a.txt" Backup Manager detects this and properly tracks file history. File move into other directory or even to another computer will be also properly tracked
You can restore selected files or directories on certain date from past

Results

We've developed and are using our custom solution which fully satisfy our needs and is open for future modifications and new functionality additions. Our tool is easy in use and its deployment will give you immediate benefits in a case of safe data storage. We have successful track of situations when our Backup Manager saved important files and many hours of work. Backup Manager solution is offered as option in our support & maintenance services and already working in different configurations.

We have confidence that with our Backup Manager our files are safe and have real protection! It gives us freedom and eliminates duty to care and constantly update and copy archives with latest data.


Planned additions

computer registry backup
support for full system backup & unattended restore (already partly done)


If you are interested in our solution or need more info please contact us.



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