Genie Backup Manager Pro | Overview | Backup, Restore, Disaster Recovery and Online Backup Solution

Resource Friendly. Clear Backup procedure
Save CPU and memory resources: GBM 8.0 comes with a new non proprietary efficient 64-bit Zip archive engine that compresses and encrypts data in a single process. This light-weighted Zip archive engine is resource friendly: CPU and memory are not bogged down. You can also control backup performance for less resource usage during backup without interruption. During virus scans or computer slowdowns, you can pause or snooze backup jobs that are about to run until after this resource consuming process finishes.


Browse the internet and backup: Backup to remote locations using FTP and Genie Online Backup as GBM optimizes bandwidth usage for uploaded backups. However, if you need to use the Internet, you can perform bandwidth throttling to limit how much bandwidth GBM uses to backup to GBM’s secure Genie Online Backup storage servers. Or limit bandwidth when backing up to an FTP location.


Save Energy: Have you ever left your computer on during a backup? With Power options you can set a backup job on completion to logoff, hibernate, suspend or shutdown your computer. You can even navigate to these options through the system tray (notification tray) residing GBM Agent and quickly run a backup and set it to shutdown without the need to open the GBM itself. If your backup fires off when staying late at work, you can simply disable power options or change the setting during backup. Laptop running on batteries will stay running as you can set the option not to start the backup if the laptop is running on batteries until you have mains power.

Easy to use. No need to be an expert
Clear Backup procedures Genie Backup Manager’s consistent and intuitive user interface makes it very user friendly and easy to use. With its wizard based interface, you can go through the steps of creating a backup with the assurance that you have done it correctly. Quick help can be found on each wizard page for guidance. GBM Agent resides in the system tray (notification tray), allowing access to many of the backup functions, but without the need to open GBM 8.0 itself. Backup and Restore by a simple double-click Run your backups using shortcuts created on the desktop. Moreover, you can double-click the backup file to automatically open the restore interface to recover data from the selected job, or create self-restorable backups to serve the same purpose when GBM is not installed on the computer. Backup what you need To simplify things, GBM scans your system for important data such as emails, photos, media, Windows settings, Favorites and so forth. Now there is no need to search for your important data, GBM finds it for you.
Familiar data selection interface Folder and file selections in GBM use the same style as Windows Explorer. This means that it easy to select files and folders for backup as this will be familiar to you. Also, you can double-click any file or folder to open it or run it, and find out folder/file properties. GBM will also give you a dynamic data selection size estimate so that you are aware of how much data you are backing up and whether you have the storage space for it. GBM has been designed to help make backing up so easy that you never have to put it off ever again.

Fast Backup/Recovery. Why wait?
On-the-fly backup: Mirroring and incremental backups are executed swiftly on-the-fly with enhanced and smart indexing of files based on a timestamp comparison instead of the traditional archive bit comparison that may lead to missed files that should otherwise have been part of the backup. Backup is performed using the quick and efficient 64-bit Zip archive engine that can encrypt the archive up to 256-bit in one simple and single process. Backup and restore what you need: With Genie Backup Manager, you can select the data required for backup or restore using a simple file/folder selection process. Alternatively, you can directly search the GBM Catalog and extract important files you accidentally deleted instantly.

Leave the hard work for GBM: For many computer users e-mails and contact details are very important. For example, you do not need to be a computer expert to restore your Outlook or Outlook Express e-mails, for example, as GBM automatically recreates profiles, restores email accounts, signatures and Outlook/Outlook Express settings. Moreover, all application and application settings can be instantly restored using predefined GBM settings or via Genie-soft’s hundreds of free plugins. GBM automatically restores all your data in the right places (default location or a location of your choice). A further example is GBM 8.0’s ability to backup your music but on restoration it will regenerate your playlist in the same order you backed it up from regardless whether your music backup is restored to a different location. Now that is handy and clever!

Secure. Your data deserves it
Put a stop to unauthorized access: You can rest easy in the knowledge that nobody will be able to have unauthorized access to your data. GBM 8.0 supports U.S. government-certified Advanced Encryption Standard (AES: 128-, 192, 256-bit) security. For simpler options, you can take advantage of the Zip password protection feature using the efficient 64-bit archive engine up to 256-bit encryption strength. Prevent disasters from reaching your data: Not only is your data secure locally but if you wish to perform online backups and keep your data offsite and out of harms way, GBM 8.0 can backup data remotely using an encryption strength of 128-bit over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for data transmissions that is certified by the leading provider of SSL certificates, Thawte; preserving data integrity and forbidding eavesdroppers from intercepting data.

Robust. Rock-solid backups
When your connection fails, GBM will resume: Genie Backup Manager provides reliable backups even after a connection failure. Regardless as to whether you are backing up to network locations, FTP, external drives, or Genie Online Backup. After a connection failure, GBM automatically resumes the backup job, once the connection is re-established. When backing up network locations, and if they are unavailable at the time of a backup job, GBM detects missing backup drives and logs them in the backup log. If you have an unstable connection Backup transfer method may be the best solution, as a backup job is created locally on your local drive and then it can be send to the destination of your choice. There’s always a way with GBM.


Backups you can rely on: Verify the integrity of your backups to ensure the prospect of a successful restore, with post backup verification to hard drives, network locations, and removable media with bit-by-bit verification (using Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)). GBM automatically pre-verifies backups to Genie Online Backup, FTP, and tape to ensure successful restoration of your data. Perform reliable CD/DVD backups with BURN proof Technology, CD/DVD backup simulation before committing to disc, and burning verification for successful CD/DVD backups with the latest Sonic® engine. If a disk is lost from your backup or one is corrupted, you can always convert the backup archive to a standard zip archive file and restore your data from that. Tape recovery can also be performed with on-demand Tape Recovery Utilities customized for the user. To save all the inconvenience with hardware failure, you can also backup to our secure and reliable offsite storage; Genie Online Backup.

Reporting. The plain truth
Keep track about your backup anywhere: Set e-mail notification to track your backups and see the status of your backup, by attaching the backup log. Reduce the number of logs sent by specifying an e-mail report only if errors occur. Use Genie mobile to view the latest backup summary of your online backup from your mobile.


Keep track of your backed up data: With GBM 8.0 Logs Manager, you can track all your backup logs and view all backed up files from the Details Log tab (Normal Lob is also available). Analyze the backup status of your latest backup from the GBM Agent (residing in the system tray, also known as the notification tray) or open GBM to view the backup summary of the latest backup directly also.

Online Backup. Never know what can hit you

Tight integration with GBM:
GBM offers a complete backup solution with tight integration and online backup in the same backup wizard as other backup devices; simplifying the whole backup process. You can also manage or request a Genie Online Backup account directly from the software via Online Backup Management; which also provides easy access and auto synchronization to data backed up or uploaded to your Genie Online Backup account.

Maximum Security:
You can backup to Genie-soft’s secure offsite storage called Genie Online Backup employing multi-layered security. First, secure your backed up data with one of 3 levels of highly secure Advanced Encryption Standard (AES: 128, 192 and 256-bit) encryption. Then backup or restore from your Genie Online Backup storage account securely using an encryption strength of 128-bit over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for data transmissions that is certified by the leading provider of SSL certificates, Thawte; preserving data integrity and forbidding eavesdroppers from intercepting data.

Save Space and time:
Before backing up to Genie-soft’s Genie Online Backup storage servers, for fast and efficient storage utilization use either the incremental backup type or mirroring while also incorporating maximum compression using the new 64-bit Zip archiving engine. Restore your backups in an instant with a bulk-level download, instead of the traditional file by file download.

Disaster Recovery. Be Ready

Simple to create:
The combination of GBM and disaster recovery (DR) technology and Microsoft’s Windows Pre-installation Environment (Windows PE) 2.0, GBM can perform fast DR for all supported platforms, including Windows Vista, without the need of any Windows Installation Setup media or serial number. Wizard based backups and walkthroughs provide clear steps on how to perform a DR backup job so that all important data will be automatically included in your DR backup.

Flexible:
You can perform your DR job to multiple hard disks, removable disks, or CD/DVDs using multi-drive spanning and auto disc spanning. Perform your DR backup job with or without compression, secure DR backup with one of 3 levels of AES encryption (128, 192, and 256-bit) or Zip archive password protection. You can also secure your mission critical data by creating a DR backup job using Genie Online Backup.

Iomega® REV Support:
GBM supports creating a DR Bootable REV disk and DR job on a single REV disk. This makes it easy and convenient to keeping your entire DR backup on a single high capacity REV disk.

Scripting Capabilities . Add value to your backup routine
Backup your Favorite Programs and settings: Genie-soft offers a database of hundreds of free plugins, and counting. GBM offers plugins for specific applications installed on your system. Why re-install and go through the inconvenience and time wasting exercise of reconfiguring the application to your personal application style? GBM will do this for you using the appropriate plugin in seconds. Backup your financial databases, audio visualizations, game saves, application settings, and desktop enhancements from hundreds of FREE Plugins offered on our site and all frequently updated to include that latest application version. GBM customers can also create and upload their own scripts using the easy to use plugin creator, and once verified by Genie-soft’s plugin script writing staff, they will be included in the database for all to use. You can also request plugins and Genie-soft’s plugin scripting writing staff will create the plugin for you. The free plugin database is constantly updated with the latest application plugin versions. Genie-soft’s plugin script writing staff work very hard to create requested plugins for applications as soon as possible – sometimes a batch of requests will be uploaded within days. How’s that for customers support and care.


Create Backup jobs with scripting: Create backup jobs with XML tags based scripting. Using GRunScript, deploy them to other GBM users and simply run them manually or automatically. Scripting is also supported when backing up to Genie Offsite storage servers (Genie Online Backup).

Backup Media. The complete backup solution


Backup to virtually Any Storage Device: Backup to internal and external hard drives, RAID, DAS, NAS and SAN, without the need to define the backup media or allocate space for the backup job. Span across more than one location using multi-drive spanning, or use multiple removable drives and be rest assured that if the USB disk is on a different drive letter, Genie USB Locator will automatically locate it for you. If you are a traditional tape backup person, GBM supports all SCSI and IDE interfaced tape drives. GBM also enables you to backup offsite using Ajax-based backup technology to Genie-soft’s Genie Online Backup storage facility or FTP locations and in doing so offering better data management and greater data availability. With the latest enhanced Sonic® burning engine, backup your data to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±RW, DVD±R, DVD-RAM, Blu-ray, HD-DVD discs or directly to CD/DVDs using packet writing support.


Iomega® REV Support: Iomega® REV backup users can now control REV settings directly from GBM; controlling write and access protection, automatically erase the disk before a backup job begins, to ejecting a REV disk after a backup job has completed successfully. GBM 8.0 also supports creating a disaster recovery (DR) Bootable REV disk and DR job on a single REV disk.

Storage Optimization.Make the most out of what you have
Save space: If the amount of storage available for backup jobs is becoming an issue of concern for you, it is possible to either increase the level of compression to the maximum available (level 10) or purge old backups. For example, if you only want to save 5 copies of My Documents, copy #1 becomes copy #2 and the new backup becomes copy #1, while copy number #5 is effectively copy #6 and so it is deleted. So you always have only 5 copies of My Documents. This means that you can manage your storage space more efficiently and effectively and never run out of storage space without forewarning. Moreover, Mirror and the backup type called Incremental is also a great option to backup changed files yet also limit how much space is utilized to backup on each media by using fixed split size. There is always a way when using GBM 8.0 to get the best in backing up your important data.

Data. Backup what you need, not what’s forced upon you

Personal Profile:
Each Windows user has a personalized profile to meet their taste and needs. With Genie Backup Manager it is possible to backup your personal Windows configurations including your tailored visual appearance, keyboard and mouse preferences, desktop wallpapers, and power and connection settings, personal fonts and Windows Favorites too. In addition, GBM lists all files present on the user desktop and documents folder.

	Mail: Backing up your e-mail and e-mail settings could not be simpler. In fact, GBM automatically detects your Outlook (2000 through to 2007), Outlook Express and Windows Mail profiles. All you need to do is select what is to be included in your e-mail backup. You can also include your address book contacts.

Media and Images:
Each individual has their taste in music and all their personal playlists and music files. All your music can be easily backed up but on restoration it will regenerate your playlist in the same order you backed it up from regardless whether your music backup is restored to a different location. Is it important to you to backup your photos of those precious moments that would be heartbreaking to lose? Now there is no need to search for this important data, as GBM finds it for you. All you have to do is select what you want included in your backup job. Nice and simple.

	Files and Folders: Got business documents and personal information on your drives? Need to backup the company database located across the network? GBM uses the same style as Windows explorer style for file/folder select. Allowing you to easily navigate through your system and select mission-critical or personal data.

Application Settings:
Why settle for less? With GBM, you can backup almost any data on your system regardless of type, size or location. To backup application files and settings, GBM offers plugins for specific applications installed on your system. Why reinstall and go through the inconvenience and time wasting exercise of reconfiguring the application to your personal application style? GBM will do this for you using the appropriate plugin in seconds. Backup your financial databases, audio visualizations, game saves, application settings, and desktop enhancements from hundreds of FREE Plugins offered on our site and all frequently updated to include the latest application version.

Flexible.Backup with style


Need more? Want more from your backup? Looking to backup hidden network locations or auto span your backups to multiple locations or media? Want to perform actions prior to your backup with pre and post commands? Genie Backup Manager can do all this and more. With its flexible features, you can do almost anything with your backup. Filter your selections using multiple options, either by file name, size or date, or backup your data using any one of four backup types/methods.


Move your data anywhere: If you want to restore your data but wish to place them in a specified folder with or without the original structure, or you hope to salvage your data to its original path after a new system installation, GBM can do just that..


Save Energy: Ever left your computer open during a backup job was running and found it the next day on? With Power options you can set a backup job to log-off, hibernate, suspend or shutdown your computer when the backup job completes. You can even navigate to that option through the system tray residing GBM Agent and quickly run a backup, set it to shutdown without the need to open GBM itself. If your backup fires off when staying late at work, you can simply disable power options or change the setting during backup job process. Laptops running on batteries will stay running as you can set the option to postpone backups if the system is running on batteries (Laptop Power Optimization Support).

Automatic Backups . Let GBM do the job for you
No need to baby-sit backup jobs: You do not need to be logged-on to your system to run a backup. That is because GBM 8.0 supports scheduled automatic backups when a system is logged off. Whether you are a novice or an advanced user, GBM has a solution for all computer user requirements with the Basic or Advanced schedule options. Customize Data Protection Schema: You know best how important and how frequent your data changes. Now you can customize your backups to run every minute, hour, daily, weekly, monthly, or just once. Rotate between different backup types for reliable backups and control how many backup versions (using the purge option) you need in an easy to use scheduling interface.