Ferro Backup System 3.1

Ferro Backup System 3.1 is a flexible and intelligent tool developed for small offices and large corporations and institutions alike. It allows you to protect data stored at desktops, laptops and network file servers operating under Microsoft Windows®, Novell NetWare®, Linux, MacOS.

With Ferro Backup System™ it takes just moments to secure information of critical importance for your company’s operations, which is stored on computers connected to a LAN. 

Benefits:

1. Maximum performance: Thanks to techniques used such as differential backup, compression at desktop level, symmetric multiprocessing, Ferro Backup System enables you, in a very short time, to make copies of files from all computers connected to the local area network..
2. Low costs: Ferro Backup System requires no expensive server, server version of the operating system or tape drives. As data compression is done at desktop rather than server level, an ordinary cheap PC with a bigger hard drive can be used as a backup server.
3. Fail-safety: If connection is lost, backup processes will be stopped and resumed after the connection is re- established, without the need for any administrator involvement.
4. Quick implementation: To use the Ferro Backup System, you don’t need to change anything in the current setup of the computer network, servers and office computers. Ferro Backup System is completely independent of existing services, account settings and protections.
5. No maintenance: The automatic freeing of disc space combined with an alert module which sends an e-mail to the administrator on any possible errors and warnings, limits the need for constant supervision of the program.
6. Transparent backups: Backup is done in the background and is invisible to the company’s ordinary employees.
7. Comfort: The Administrator doesn’t need to worry about the date of the last full backup and about when and how many differential backups have been executed. Ferro Backup System takes control over data recovery from differential backups and displays their content the same way as for full backups.
8. Open file backup: The Open File Manager option embedded in Ferro Backup System allows backup of open system files and files locked by other processes.
9. Backup copy of the operating system: Ferro Backup System allows you to make a backup of the entire operating system and restore it, at a later time, without the need to re-install.

Major Features:

1. Full backup: The most basic backup method. All selected drives, folders or files are backed up each time.
2. Incremental/differential: Only files which have been modified since the last full or incremental backup will be included. This ensures faster backups and saves disk space.
3. File fragment differential backup: Improved incremental/differential backup. This saves even more space on the backup drive and ensures even faster backups. It is particularly useful when backing up large files (e.g. databases, mail files), because only modified file fragments are included in the backup archive.
4. Open file backup: Files locked by other processes can be backed up. Using this function it is possible to back up e.g. a database file (without shutting down the database server), system files (register), mail files etc. More
5. Operating system backup:Here you can make a backup copy of a working operating system and restore it later on without the need to reinstall. This has the same effect as a backup created using disk or partition image software. More
6. Database and mail files backup:This makes it possible to make backups of database files without shutting down the database server and to back up large mail files during work time. More
7. Rotating backups: This ensures that you will never run out of disk space for your backups. There is a choice of how many backups should be stored and for how long. After a set period of time has elapsed, the oldest backups will be progressively deleted.
8. Restore as from a full backup:This option simplifies data searching and restoring. The user “sees” differential/incremental backups as full ones.
9. Backup and transfer encryption: Backed-up information can be encrypted using Rijndael(AES), Serpent or Twofish encryption engines. Data is encrypted at workstation, which means it is already secure when transferred to the backup server. More
10. Compression at workstation: Data is backed up and compressed at workstations so that the processing power of all of the company’s PCs can be used and less data is transferred over the network, so any PC with a large hard disk can be used as a backup server.
11. Backup replication:Backups can be automatically duplicated from the backup server to another network location, another hard disk, NAS, FTP server, optical device (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray/HD-DVD) or tape device (DDS, DLT, LTO, AIT, etc.)
12. Automatic updates:The software is automatically updated on all computers of the System.
13. Centralized control:The entire system can be controlled from a single location.
14. Automated backup tasks:Once configured, the System can work in the background. No need for continuous supervision
15. Transparent backups: Backups are performed in the background and do not affect users.
16. Backup on system shutdown:The majority of failures occur during power up. Backups can be performed when the user shuts the system down.
17. Simultaneous backups:During backups, the processing capabilities of all computers are used, so multiple PCs can be backed up at the same time.
18. Administrative alerts: In the case of a failure, the operator will be notified by email.
19. Reports: Reports include summary details of the backup process, backup tasks remaining and statistics.
20. Unlimited license: The license is not time-limited. This means that after making the payment you can keep on using the program indefinitely without extra cost.
21. Free upgrades within the same major version: Upgrades within the same major version (currently 3.xx) are free. 50% off on upgrades to future major versions.

Enhancements:

1. Replication to tape drives
2. Corrected bug in rewritable optical media support (CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW)

Requirements:

1. Intel® 486DX
2. 12 MB RAM
3. 2 MB available disk space
4. network adapter
5. Microsoft® Windows® operating system
   95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008
6. Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)