Genie-Soft Backup Solutions – Products – Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0
Genie-Soft has released a major update to their backup products. Version 8 sports many enhancements and improvements over their already outstanding product. See previous Blog Entry.
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Genie-Soft Backup Solutions – Products – Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0
What’s New in Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0 Disaster Recovery GBM can recover your system from malicious spyware, virus attacks, system failure, or deletion with the enhanced PE technology that also supports Vista and you can perform your Disaster Recovery backups online
Free Open File Backup Option GBM currently added Microsoft’s latest Volume Shadow-Copy Service (VSS) framework, to permit consistent backup of open files without the need for additional applications or plug-ins.
Enhanced Online Backup Integration Now it is easier to view, manage and delete your online backup storage. Added Bandwidth Throttling to control how much GBM takes from internet connection. Also improved connectivity that auto resumes when connection returns.
Improved Scheduling Capabilities Now it is easier to protect and rotate backups with the intuitive easy to use scheduling interface that is integrated in the backup wizard with two modes; Basic Schedule and Advanced Schedule
REV Support Now with the new Iomega REV support, users can automatically erase, enable/disable write and password protection before and after backup. Disaster recovery bootable disc and jobs can also be made on REV devices
Enhanced Graphical User Interface Now more organized with clear options making GBM’s interface better than ever Enhanced Filtering Options Added support of Date and file size filtering and newly added in scripting Control Power Options and Backup Speed You can control backup speed before or during backup and enable/disable power options or change them during backup.
Pause/Snooze Backups You can pause currently pause backups and postpone scheduled backups to start later via snoozing
New Compression Engine The new zip engine is more resource friendly making backups faster and with better compressing capabilities Improved Connectivity GBM now detects when backup destination is accessible and also reports disconnected network drives being backed up
