The Backup Manager enables a fully automated backup process on a great number of platforms and prevents errors common for traditional tape-based solutions, eliminating intensive manual interference and thereby reducing TCO.

It is a standalone application for different users of backup software market – small business, medium and large business and service providers, including home, professional and corporate users. The variety of its features satisfies multiple customer’s needs. If you need to backup open or shared files, Microsoft databases, e-mail lists or accounts at different time periods every day or every hour, Backup Manager will successfully cope with it. The solution is cross-platform and can run on all Microsoft Windows .NET platforms, Linux and Unix (RedHat, Suse, Fedora and Debian Linux distributions, MAC OS-X, Sun Solaris and many other Unix platforms).

The main features of the system (for different user types) are as follows:

• Backup over Internet. Guarantees data safety and access to backed up data from any place;
• Data encryption and compression. Guarantees the safety of confidential data and minimizes backup time;
• File system backup. Backs up the content of files and directories (including security attributes);
• System state backup. Backs up the snapshot of all important system files and settings with the ability to restore the system state for a specific point in time;
• Microsoft Exchange mail databases backup. Backs up Microsoft Exchange mail databases (including accounts, e-mails, contact, appointments, etc.);
• Backup on shutdown. Specified data sets can be backed up before computer shutdown;
• Settings storage on backup server. The software is re-installed without the lost of configuration parameters;
• Shared folders backup. Backs up the content of shared folders from other machines available in local network
• Open files backup. With the use of Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy technology, open files are backed up as any other files;
• Web restore. The feature allows accessing backed up data via web interface and downloading desired files and folders in a single zip archive;
• Data replication. To guarantee data safe in case of force majéur on server side, backed up data are replicated regularly on other server.

Technologies and Tools Used: Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Fedora, Debian, C/C++, MySQL v5.0.41, Trolltech Qt 4; Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy

Efforts:  96 man-months