• Shortcut for backups: easier access and running for backups
• Timestamp options 

Where to backup:

Local/LAN

• Backup to Internal/External drives, RAID, NAS, SANs without the need to identify backup locations and allocate size.
• Automatic drive span to multiple locations, multiple media
• Limit backup size to media
• Automatic repeating to selected drives
• Enhanced connectivity auto retry if connection is not available
• Backup transfer method for network locations 

Removable Media

• Supports USB External drives, flash disks, JAZ, Zip, Floppy, and Rev
• Auto erase before backup
• USB locator, finds your drive even if assigned to a different drive letter
• Multi-disk span
• Fully integrated REV Support
  • Enable disable write protection before/after backup
  • Enable/disable access protection before/after backup
  • Eject disc after backup
  • REV locator
• Rename media

FTP

• Supports Passive/active mode
• Keep local copy on drive
• Auto resume
• Bandwidth throttling
• View files directly from site 

CD/DVD

• Supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±RW, DVD±R, DVD RAM, Blu-ray, HD internal and external burners
• Multi disk spanning
  Auto erase before backup
• Backup Simulation
• Backup Verification; verifies that your data has been written successfully after it has been burned to disc
• Prevent buffer underruns with BURN Proof technology, enables continuous recording without errors
• Direct backup to disc using packet writing support
• Change recording speeds
• Backup to multiple discs without the need of original backup
• Limit disk space used on media
• View backed up data without the need of media
• Rename media label

Tape

• Supports all IDE/SCSI Tape Devices
• Supports hardware compression
• On the fly backup
• View backed up data without the need of media
• Eject tape after backup
• Eject, Erase, Format, Tension operations
• Auto erase before backup
• Catalog generation from media
• Multi tape spanning
• Highly secure software Encryption
• Tape recovery utility

Online

• Fast backup and restore
• High connectivity, auto resume
• Supports limiting and rotating backups
• Fully integrated in GBM Pro, no need for additional add-ons
• Easy to manage online space and backups
• Multi-level security; SSL, AES
• Compression
• Fast restore bulk level download
• Mirror backup
• Share documents
• Access backup directly from Web or light weight client
• Online DR
• Fast online DR recovery
• Genie drive, view/edit important data directly from web
• Search/ view files without the need to access the web or login to online account
• Bandwidth throttling always or specific times of the day

What to Backup

Outlook 2000-2007

• Backup email messages, appointments, contacts, tasks, journal entries, notes, posted items.
• Multiple profile backup
• Outlook settings: customized toolbar settings, contacts and nicknames, send/receive settings,navigation pane settings, rules….
• Outlook Signatures, stationary, and custom forms
• Email accounts; POP3, IMAP, http, exchange accounts
• Notifications, displays, read receipts, sending options and formats, maintenance preferences, etc...
• Restores to any outlook version independent for the backup it has been taken from (outlook 2002 backup can be restored to 2007)
• Restores to a newly created profile, overwrite existing or adds to an existing profile
• Auto close before restoration

Windows Mail

• Backup Emails, E-mail accounts, Internet news accounts and Directory Service accounts. Message rules, notifications, displays, send/receive message options, read receipts, sending options and formats, maintenance preferences, etc, stationary
• Merges to existing email account or overwrites existing email

Outlook Express:

• View/ extract emails from archive, without the need to restore
• Enables email synchronization
• Backs up the following: email accounts, internet news accounts and Directory service accounts, message rules, block senders list , stationary, etc…
• Auto close before restoration

Desktop/Documents

• Automatically backs up all desktop items or selected desktop items
• View/ execute or edit any desktop item by double clicking from the interface
• Restores to any desktop regardless of operating system or username or to alternate location

My Media/My Photos

• Enhanced scanning capability find all media and photos on all drives
• View photos in view pane, opens it in browser and opens the location the image is stored in
• Backs up playlist and all media in playlist and regenerates it in the same original order at restore time so as to play the same songs even if they were restored to a different location.
• Restores to original or alternate locations

Registry:

• Backup/Restore all registry or selected registry keys

Windows Settings:

• Desktop Wallpapers, visual Appearance, international settings, Mouse Preferences, Mouse Cursors, Connections Settings, Power Settings, Consol Settings, Multimedia, and Windows Explorer advanced view settings to any user account and different machines

Internet Explorer:

• Backup Windows Cookies and settings and restores them to any IE version (6 and up)

Windows Address Book:

• Backs up contact information stored in WAB
• Enables WAB synchronization
• View WAB directly from archive without restoring

Favorites:

• Backs up Favorite URLs accessed by internet explorer

Windows Fonts:

• Backup and reinstall Windows fonts to any machine

My Folders:

• Windows Explorer style; the ability to view, edit, view properties, execute files/folders in the backup interface
• Advanced File filtering, by date and by size, wildcards, import and export rules
• Auto exclude options
• Backup network locations, and hidden network files
• Reports inaccessible network locations
• Preserves Alternative Data stream
• Backs up User Access control List

My Plugins:

• Backup financial, developer tools, desktop enhancements, application settings and data
• The ability to uninstall plugin restore
• Download over 350 and still growing free plugin database
• Auto detect supported plugins
• Create own personal plugins with easy to use Genie Plugin Creator

Backup Settings

Backup Types:

• Supports 4 different backup types; Normal, incremental, differential, mirror
• The ability to backup without the need to reset archive bit, supports copy mode for all backup types
• Performs incremental/Differential without the need of the full backup, or incremental to compare to

Compression:

• Backup in native format giving the ability to view backup archive directly from windows explorer
• Native zip compression engine 10 levels, giving it the ability to extract the archive from ordinary zip utilities

Security:

• 3 level AES encryption and zip password protection
• Supports native encryption; encrypt data without compression

Self restorable backups:

• Restore data without the need to install GBM. We can put this feature in the removable devices

Purge:

• Keep all backup versions or limit backup versions by number or by period
• Auto backup type rotation (full + Incremental) (full+ differential)

Power options:

• Enable GBM to shutdown, logoff, hibernate, standby after backup

Email notification:

• The ability to send authentication when backup completes or errors
• Send simple backup log as an attachment in email
• Supports SMTP SSL encryption email notification for gmail, hotmail and other service providers requires secure connection
• Send to multiple recipients

Pre and post commands:

• Chain backups
• Copy backups to multiple locations
• Disable/ enable antivirus before and after backup
• Supports batch, cmd and script files to execute

Schedule

• The ability to run backup when user is logged off
• Laptop power optimization: don’t start backup if running on batteries
• Run backups every few hours or minutes, daily, monthly, yearly, once

Power schedule:

• The ability to rotate between full and incremental/differential backups frequently; customize continuous protection of data
• Specify number of backup set versions (limit number of backup sets)
• Snooze schedule and change power options after completing backup 

Backup progress

• Ability to control backup performance during backup
• Pause/ resume option
• Auto/manual verify data after backup
• Auto view log after completing backup

• 3 mode restore; single location, original location and alternate
• Auto link restore multiple runs
• Managing existing file restore, always restore, if newer, never restore
• Customize location of outlook data file

Tape Restore:

• Catalog generation from tape
• Tape identification

• The ability to clone jobs to reduce time in setting up a backup from scratch

• The ability to view all backup logs by date or by jobs
• Two view logs, normal and detailed
• Print, print preview, and save normal logs
• Detail logs shows all data backed up and its status, filter view to skipped/failed data
• Ability to export detailed log

• Automatic test of data integrity
• Two verification methods; bit-by-bit and CRC
• Auto verify after CD/DVD backup
• Test new changed files in incremental/ differential backup instead of all archive
• Data verification before committing to FTP and tape

• Backs up all open files without the need to download external add-ons

• The ability to run backup without the need to open GBM
• Check for updates
• Edit job
• Open GBM by double clicking the Agent
• Run and set power options for a backup directly from agent

Misc:
2-mode wizard layout
Backup summary of last backup ran on main page

• Easy to create and deploy to other machines over the network
• File filtering options
• Online backup scripting capabilities