Regain access to your data, hardware and software and resume personal and critical business operations once a data loss scenario occurs. Never again should data loss due to computer viruses, Trojan horses or malware infections, system and/or equipment failure, power outrage, robbery, fire, natural disaster, security breaches, terrorist attack, human error, organized or deliberate disruptions, and illegal programs, be an issue. With GBM’s enhanced PE technology, which also supports Windows XP, and Windows Vista, you can perform your DR backup plan. It is also possible to perform your DR backup plan remotely.

End users, network and system administrators are becoming acutely aware that their current backup software solutions are failing at the very thing they were purchased to do: backing up the most critical data in their organization and desktops. The reason for this backup failure is that the most important files created, files changing regularly and in use by business-critical applications performing important functions on this data cannot be interrupted. To a lesser degree this can be the case for personal users as well. To overcome this shortcoming GBM Home, Pro and Server editions provides built-in open/in use and locked file backups via Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista Volume Shadow Copy service (VSS) technology. No additional applications or plug-ins are necessary. However, Genie-soft’s powerful add-on supersedes many of the limitations still present using Windows VSS technology. So if you need the extra functionality, try Open File Backup (OFB), especially if you intend to backup open files across different types of network infrastructures. This aids in business continuity or continuance (BC).

Keep your data out of danger by remotely using Genie Online Backup to backup to, and restore from, using an encryption strength of 128-bit over a Secure Socket Layers (SSL) for data transmissions. Enhanced features allow you to easily view manage and delete your online backup storage. Added bandwidth throttling controls how much internet bandwidth GBM uses during uploads etc. Improved connectivity enables auto resumes when a connection is lost but then returns.

It is so much easier and reliable if backing up can be scheduled, whether while logged-on or logged-off your system. Scheduling can be achieved using the easy-to-use smart backup scheduler. Different backup jobs can be performed at different times and intervals, snooze or even pause scheduled backup(s), and prompt GBM 8.0 to postpone backups if the system is running on batteries (Laptop Power Optimization Support). There are two scheduling modes: Basic and Advanced. Please note that Advanced Scheduling is only available in GBM Pro.

Now with new Iomega REV support, computer users can automatically erase, enable or disable write, and password protect, before and after a backup job. The eject action is included too.

Within GBM preferences, it is possible on a slider, to select the impact of a backup and restore job. For example, “Quick Backup” means the CPU will be utilized for getting the backup and restore job completed as quickly as possible. This will impact on other computing tasks being performed during this time. A compromise is to select “Faster Computer” so that you can continue every computing task while the backup or restore job is completing without any discernable hit on performance. Moreover, it is also possible to select whether on a particular job to shut down or log-off the computer, plus many more options. Please note that these features are not available inGBM Home 8.0.

Using the easy-to-use smart backup scheduler, performing different backup jobs at different times and intervals, snooze or even pause scheduled backup(s), and prompt GBM 8.0 to postpone backups if the system is running on batteries (Laptop Power Optimization Support) is one of many new features added in to all GBM 8.0 editions.

GBM now detects when a backup destination is accessible and also reports disconnected network (mapped) drives being backed up.