AISCL: The home of the Windows Backup utility AISBackup.

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Aquarius I. S. Consultancy aims to supply low cost, high value, utility software to home and business users having features normally only found in software aimed at large corporate businesses. Indeed, corporate businesses may prefer to look here for a Windows PC backup and a Windows Server backup solution.

Testimonial

I first used AISBackup in July 2003, and after a suitably extended evaluation period (!) purchased my copy in January 2004. I was particularly impressed that it coped with files that were there on one session, deleted the next, and recreated on the next - and that empty folders were treated properly, too
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AISBackup: One product for Windows PC and Server backup.

AISBackup provides a Windows PC backup and Windows Server backup and restore utility of data and the Operating System to Internal and External Disk drives, Network drives, FTP Servers, CD, DVD, and all other media that looks like a disk to Windows. AISBackup is designed for all Windows operating systems from Windows 95, so whether you require a Windows XP backup, Windows Vista backup, Windows 7 backup or a Windows Server backup program or even a Windows 95, 98 and ME backup program you will find AISBackup a suitable solution.

AISBackup backs up Server application data, for example SQL Server backup and Microsoft Exchange backup without additional add-on software.

Feedback has told us that some Users are happy using AISBackup to backup and restore data from their Mac and Linux computers using network shares. However, AISBackup is not suitable for backing up or restoring the Operating System from Mac or Linux computers.

You are invited to download and try AISBackup for 30 days.

Purchasing AISBackup

You may purchase AISBackup from our re-seller Register Now using all major credit and debit cards. U.K. Customers may pay by cheque in U.K. pounds. Please click here for more information.

Site License Options:

For multiple copies of AISBackup please see here.

Upgrade policy:

Once you have purchased AISBackup there is no further charge for upgrades. Just download the new version of AISBackup and install over the top of the existing version.

We also keep AISBackup backward compatible with your old backups, although backups made on the current version of AISBackup may not be compatible with older versions of the program - AISBackup will suggest that you download and install the latest version.

Offer for home Use:

If the software is for home use we will honour two licenses per household per purchase, so that you may use the software on your laptop or second home desktop computer. The additional key may be applied for at any time and is available to existing customers.

What's New

27 August 2010: AISBackup version 2.8 build 384 uploaded.

How to upgrade you hard drive.

How to use AISBackup to upgrade your hard drive or make a dual boot system video.

New in AISBackup build 378 (Released 10 May 2010)

Open exclusive (locked file) backup support for 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Vista. This support could not be added to Windows Server 2008 R2, however AISFAM may be used instead. In fact AISFAM may be used in place of AISBackup's integrated support of open exclusive files for quicker backups.

Help Videos

If you need help with using AISBackup see the help videos here and PDF instructions here.

AISBackup network administration

A tool for managing AISBackup on LAN and WAN connected PC's, includes:

Create, change and schedule backup jobs.

Run backup and integrity check jobs on remote PC's.

Automatically distribute updates to AISBackup.

View backup Job Reports.

For more information click here.

Version 2.8 of AISBackup - Supports:

All Windows versions including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
32 bit and 64 bit Windows support.
AISBackup Restore CD, more information here.
Disaster recovery restore using the Microsoft Windows Vista or Windows 7 set-up DVD and a copy of AISBackup on CD or a USB Flash Drive.

What's Old News? Nearly 10 years of milestones.

October 2000: The prerelease version of AISBackup could be used to make disaster recovery backups of Windows 98 and Windows 95; the same backup was used to restore Windows 98 back to October 2000 on a Windows 7 virtual PC to make this video about dual boot 98 & XP disaster recovery.
February 2001: AISBackup was released and the first sale was made a few days later.
October 2002: Integrated CD and DVD support added so there was not longer a requirement for a third party packet writing system.
May 2003: Disaster recovery support for Windows XP, however open exclusive file support was not available. Programs and services can be automatically stopped and restarted to reduce the affect of open and locked files such as the outlook e-mail file.
May 2004: Server 2000 and Server 2003 support, including disaster recovery, active directory, SQL Server etc. Open exclusive file support was still unavailable so SQL Server had to be closed prior to backup and then restarted - all automatically.
August 2004: Drag and drop restore option added so you know exactly where files and folders are restored. Possible to drag and drop folders containing many gigabytes to different drives - Windows programmers are likely to tell you that this is not possible.
October 2005: At last! Open exclusive file support for NTFS drives. Programs and services no longer need to be closed prior to backup.
July 2006: Support for Windows Vista added.
February 2008: Hard link file support added - a must as Windows Vista uses thousands of hard links. Simplistically a hard link is the same file on disk with two or more names (in different folders). Change one file and the 'other' changes because it is physically the same file.
May 2008: Support for 64-bit Windows, open file support was not supported on 64-bit Vista or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 without using AISFAM. Open file support on 64-bit XP and Server 2003 worked okay.
October 2008: It is now possible to make an AISBackup bootable restore CD for disaster recovery.
March 2009: Windows 7 support added.
May 2010: Open exclusive file backup support added for 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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