Features of Best Remote Backup

• Full User Control - You control everything. You set the backup schedule. You restore the files. You have complete control over the process.
• Unlimited Computers on 1 License - Best Remote Backup allows you to backup multiple computers using a single backup account. To backup multiple computers, you need to create a different backup set to backup each individual computer and to configure the [Run scheduled backup on this computer] checkbox. Since the computer that created the backup set will have its computer name associated with the backup set. The backup scheduler running on each computer will only run backup sets with the same computer name as itself. Thus, you just need to make sure that all your computer names using a single backup account are unique.
• Automatic/Customizable Backup Schedule - You have the ability to customize your backup schedule to fit your needs.
• Email Reports - Best Remote Backup Server makes use of the email system to keep you informed with the status of your backup activities. Please make sure your contact information within the backup system is correct to receive the reports.
• Encrypted and Compressed Data - Before your files are sent to the Offsite Backup Server, all your files are compressed and encrypted using your choice of encryption algorithm, mode and key.
• Volume Shadow Copy - Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) allows you to backup files that are exclusively opened. Without VSS, you will get the error message “The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file” if you are trying to backup a file that is exclusively opened (e.g. Outlook PST file). Please note that VSS is only available on Windows XP / 2003 and you must have administrative privileges to start the VSS service on a computer. Also VSS will only work if at least one of your partitions is formatted using NTFS.
• Infile Delta - In-file delta technology is an advanced data block matching algorithm which has the intelligence to pick up changes (delta) of file content between two files. Using this algorithm, daily backing up of large files (e.g. a 10GB Outlook.pst file) over low-speed internet connection is made possible because it requires only the changes of information (should be marginal) since the last backup to be sent over a low-speed internet connection to complete the backup of a large file (here we assume that the full backup of the file has been saved on the backup server already).
• Command Line Tool - You can use the command line tool to run pre/post backup command.
• Local Copy - In addition to backing up offsite, Best Remote Backup has an option to create a local copy for faster file restoration.
• Seed Loading - If you have a lot of data (e.g. 300GB) to backup to the backup server, it would take a considerable amount of time to perform the first full backup through the Internet. If you run into this problem, you can use the Seed Loading Utility to backup your backup set to local hard disk (instead of directly to the backup server) and then transport the backup data, using removable hard disk, to the offsite backup server. The administrator can then load all your backup files from your removable hard disk into your backup account. This could then save you days (even weeks) of performing your first full backup. Since subsequent backup will be incremental backup (only new or updated files will be uploaded to the server) you should have no problems uploading your backup data afterwards.
• Customizable Retention - During backup, if OBM finds that you have deleted a file (or updated a file) on your computer, it will put the corresponding deleted (or updated) file already backed up on the backup server into a retention area. The retention policy setting defines how long files inside the retention area will be kept on the backup server before they are deleted automatically from the server. Retention policy will only affect "retained" file (i.e. files that have already been deleted or updated on your computer and thus are moved to the retention area of the backup server). For those files that have not been updated on your computer, the backup of these files is kept in the data area on the backup server and won’t be affected by the setting of retention policy. These backup files of unchanged files will stay on the backup server forever until the original files are removed (or updated) from your computer.
• Backup File Filter - The backup filter defines the file selection rules that allow user to easily include/exclude files into/from the backup set by applying user defined criteria to the file names or directory names.
• Offline Backup - Off-line backup is basically designed for notebook users who are off-line most of the time and cannot rely on the backup schedule to backup regularly. The "Backup Interval" allows notebook users to specify the interval that they would like their data to backup. When the machine is online and this interval has elapsed, backup will run automatically. If “Backup Alert” is enabled, a popup message box will ask the user to confirm starting the backup.
• Web site Control - Access any files at anytime through the web interface. Please read the user guide for more information.
• Data Center with replication - Your data is backed up to a secure underground location with diesel generators as power backups. That data is then replicated in real time to another location. We understand the importance of your data and spare no expense in keeping it safe.