AISBackup Features

AISBackup is a program designed to provide Operating System and data backups of your Windows PC or Server to the following media:

CD using the integrated or a third party CD mastering interface.
DVD preferably via a third party Packet Writing system, which may already be installed on the PC.
USB or FireWire connected hard drive.
Zip, Jaz or other removable media.
Local Hard Drives.
Networked Hard Drives.
Internet or Intranet FTP Servers.

AISBackup is job based, each job contains a list of files and folders to be backed up and the media to which the backup is made.

Once a backup job has been created and loaded AISBackup examines the disk to determine which files need to be backed up. Once this process is complete, simply click Run Backup to start the Backup process.

Only files that have changed since the last backup are added, this considerably reduces the time needed to maintain a complete system backup (after the initial backup that is).

Each time a backup is run a new session is created. When files are added to the backup database any previous versions remain on the backup. Each version of a backed up file is held in it’s own session.

Individual sessions may be selected during a Restore process, this enables you to restore all files that existed on a particular date.

The contents of each backup remain online to ease the process of restoring files. Simply select the file, or files that you want to restore, select the destination of the files and then click restore. If the backup containing the file(s) is offline you will be prompted to load the appropriate media (CD, DVD, Removable drive or Network Drive) during the restore process.

AISBackup is capable of backing up and restoring the following:

The Windows Registry.
Windows Server 2000 & 2003 Active Directory.
NTFS File and Folder Security Settings.
Encrypted files retaining their encrypted state.
Offline backup of Microsoft Exchange Server.
Restore Windows to new drives or partitions.
Clone Windows to create dual-boot systems either via a backup or the Copy Disk to Disk menu option.
Make 'ready to go' disaster recovery backups to external disks, see here for more details.

Backups may be set-up to run via the Microsoft Task scheduler directly from the AISBackup user interface.

When making a disaster recovery restore: Windows 2000 & XP Users must re-install Windows with AISBackup and any software that is required to access the backup media. The restore can then be made over the top of the running Windows system. Alternatively hook up the hard disk to another computer and restore run the restore from there.

Backups of the Windows 95, 98 and Windows ME Operating can be made that can be restored using the Windows Recovery Diskette and a newly formatted hard drive. The restores can be made in a fraction of the time it takes to reload Windows, Hardware Drivers, Patches etc. These Emergency backups are made to a hard drive partition, from where you may copy them to a CD that is in a format suitable for reading from DOS, this is easily achieved by using the integrated CD writer. This backup type is called an Emergency System Backup.

You may backup up to internet or intranet FTP servers. AISBackup optionally offers an enhanced version of the standard zip file security where your password is always converted to a password of 64 to the power of 40 characters. Passwords can be generated unique to your copies of AISBackup so that other owners of AISBackup cannot read your backups.