Ahsay Backup Software 5.5.3

Ahsay Backup Software 5.5.3 is a powerful software that is good for home and office users who have 2 desktop or laptop computers to back up. It comes with 2 AhsayACB and 1 AhsayOBS. You need to install AhsayOBS on a computer or a supported NAS device to turn it into a backup server. For the computers you need to back up, install AhsayACB on each of them. If the AhsayOBS backup server and the client computers with AhsayACB installed are on the same network, AhsayACB will automatically pointed to the AhsayOBS and you can start doing backup right away. If the AhsayOBS backup server is located offsite, you need to enter the IP address or the domain name of the AhsayOBS in AhsayACBs in order to have them correctly connected to the AhsayOBS. Version 5.5.3 includes re-design of AhsayOBM / AhsayACB GUI, Windows Active Directory authentication support, and load balancing support for AhsayOBS.

What's new in this version:

• Bare metal recovery for XP business above version;
• Continuous data protection.

 Major Features:

1. Support Low Cost NAS Devices: For SMBs that are interested in implementing backup solution in-house but with limited budget on I.T. related spending, purchasing regular servers together with backup solutions may be expensive to them. Recently, network attached storage (NAS) devices are being widely used as storage servers because of their inexpensive prices compared to regular servers. As Ahsay™ may be the only value-for-money enterprise class backup software which can be installed and run on NAS devices flawlessly, Ahsay™ together with a NAS device become a total backup solution for SMBs with limited budgets. Moreover, this solution can replace traditional tape backup for better performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
2. Microsoft Windows System Backup and Restore (Bare-Metal Recovery): Ahsay™ has integrated with StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect and Microsoft Windows System Backup to offer automatic remote offsite bare-metal system backup and restore. Although both StorageCraft ShadowProtect and Windows System Backup allow users to perform bare-metal system backup, they both lack the ability to perform remote offsite backup easily and efficiently. By combining ShadowProtect and Microsoft Windows System Backup with Ahsay™’s expertise in automatic remote offsite backup technologies, users are able to use Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager (AhsayOBM) to perform offsite complete bare-metal system backup easily for better protection.
3. In case of a total-loss disaster happened to a computer or server, backed up image containing the complete operating system and installed applications with the latest configurations and settings, along with all data, can be restored easily to a computer, even of completely different hardware, without running into the Windows blue screen.
4. Continuous Data Protection: Ahsay's advanced Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology captures every version of the data a file that has been saved to your hard drive. With CDP, even if your hard drive crashes completely after you have worked for a full day without invoking backup manually yourself, the saved copy of your working files will still be intact on the backup server. It provides a highly dependable means of real-time, continuous data protection for servers, desktops, and laptops effortlessly and transparently, without any human intervention.
5. Support of High Availability and Windows Active Directory: The high availability feature of Ahsay™ Offsite Backup Server (AhsayOBS) is ideal for larger enterprises that have a sizable number of client computers to back up concurrently, as multiple AhsayOBS can be run at the same time to form a high availability cluster. This makes it possible for the backup system to achieve optimal resource utilization, throughput, and response time. Moreover, system reliability is greatly improved with added redundancy. The support of Windows Active Directory (or LDAP) allows user backup accounts to be created automatically and backup quota to be shared by a group of users.
6. Disaster Recovery Ready: The virtue of backup is to make copies of critical data so that these additional copies can be used to restore the original following a data-loss disaster.With Ahsay™ Backup Software, data will be copied, compressed, 256-bit encrypted and finally uploaded to a remote server located offsite through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). These backed up data are 100% restorable to their original formats, when needed, by simply clicking a few buttons.
7. In addition, Ahsay™ Backup Software provides another level of protection by allowing replication of the remote backup server(s) to another remote location. As a result, the security level is doubled.Simply put, Ahsay™ is truly a great tool that offers your customers immensely valuable assistance in carrying out the important function of data backup.
8. Backup 500GB in One Night: Our seed load and in-file delta technologies enable backup of a large volume of data to be completed in a very short period of time. The seed load feature allows backup of the large volume of data to a local hard drive. With our proprietary in-file delta technology, the original file is required to be backed up once only, i.e. in the first backup job. Subsequently, only the changes within the file made since the previous backup are necessary to be backed up.
9. All Platforms and Common Databases Supported: Ahsay™ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, and all other leading operating systems which can run Java, which are essentially all operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, NetWare, NAS devices, etc. Besides, Ahsay™ comes with modules specially designed for backing up common database applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle and MySQL. This allows you to back up all these databases professionally as recommended by their respective software vendor easily without requiring you to know how it works technically behind the scenes. If the databases or application you are using in-house are not listed here, don’t worry. Our extensible and easily configurable command line tools enable you to add custom backup logics to basic backup operation through simple scripting.
10. Microsoft Exchange Server Brick Level Backup and Restore: Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email servers used by businesses of any size. Ahsay™ Backup Software’s built-in Microsoft Exchange Backup Module allows you to do brick level backup and restore for Microsoft Exchange Server, including individual emails, calendars, and contact lists, etc. When data loss disaster strikes, user can restore any individual emails, calendars and contact lists within a very short period of time, without the need to restore the full Exchange's information store. This capability makes Ahsay™ an ideal backup tool for Microsoft Exchange Server.
11. Backup Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express: Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express are the two most popular email readers used by businesses and home users. Equipped with the capability for storing large amount of data efficiently, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express are now being used by many users to store large amount of important data in addition to being merely a communication tool. However, backing up data stored in these two email readers is a headache to most users, as few users know where to find the related files storing the personal information (e.g. “.pst”, “.dbx”) and address book (“.wab”) used by these email readers to back up. With Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager and Ahsay™ A-Click Backup, users can back up these data easily by simply checking a single checkbox

Enhancements:

• Ahsay™ Redirector: If your company is seeking for a backup server system with high scalability, Ahsay™ Redirector (AhsayRDR) is the add-on component you need. It is a newly developed add-on component that works with Ahsay™ Backup Software version 5.5.3.0 or above. With AhsayRDR, one is able to add new Ahsay Offsite Backup Servers (AhsayOBS), or relocate existing AhsayOBS servers and backup accounts easily without the need of reconfiguring AhsayOBM or AhsayACB to connect to the new or relocated AhsayOBS servers. It also allows an unlimited number of new AhsayOBS servers to be added to an existing group of AhsayOBS servers easily and thus implies that scalability of the AhsayOBS backup system can be extended indefinitely without limits.
• Microsoft Windows System Backup and Restore (Bare-metal Recovery): Ahsay™ has integrated with StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect and Microsoft Windows System Backup to offer automatic remote offsite bare-metal system backup and restore. Although both StorageCraft ShadowProtect and Windows System Backup allow users to perform bare-metal system backup, they both lack the ability to perform remote offsite backup easily and efficiently. By combining ShadowProtect and Microsoft Windows System Backup with Ahsay™’s expertise in automatic remote offsite backup technologies, users are able to use Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager (AhsayOBM) to perform offsite complete bare-metal system backup easily for better protection.
• In case of a total-loss disaster happened to a computer or server, backed up image containing the complete operating system and installed applications with the latest configurations and settings, along with all data, can be restored easily to a computer, even of completely different hardware, without running into the Windows blue screen.
• Enhanced Support for NAS Devices: With the growth in storage capacity of today's NAS devices, it is obvious that these NAS devices are ideal platforms to run AhsayOBS because they possess the processing capability and the storage capacity required by AhsayOBS but cost only a fraction of the cost of a standard server. Ahsay™ now supports various popular NAS devices with different processing power, storage capacity, as well as price range for customers to choose from. We have also developed an AhsayOBS & AhsayRPS Installation Wizard so that your company can install AhsayOBS and AhsayRPS on a NAS device easily with just a few clicks.
• Support of Microsoft Windows Server 2008: Ahsay™ now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008, as well as all other leading operating systems which can run Java2 Runtime Environment 1.4.2 or above, including other versions of Windows, Linux, Mac, NetWare, NAS devices, etc. Besides, Ahsay™ comes with modules specially designed for backing up common database applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle and MySQL.