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Arctor Disk-To-Disk Backup 2.1.1.2  | Downloads: | 515 | Developer: | byteplant GmbH  | License: | Shareware | Price: | $119  | OS: | WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows2003, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows | Size: | 3153Kb | Date: | 11-22-2007 |
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Arctor is hard disk backup made smart, fast, simple and powerful. At a price of less than $1 per GB, today's cheapest and fastest backup media are hard disks - so why not simply use one for your backups? Backups on hard disks are much quicker and easier to restore, check and update. Large enterprises have used automated backup solutions based on tape libraries or the more modern D2D backup for years. With Arctor, enterprise computing is available even for small and medium sized companies at an affordable price: you can setup a reliable backup solution with fast restore capabilities at a fraction of the costs. Since Arctor's hardware requirements are quite low, even an outdated Windows workstation will be perfectly adequate as network-attached storage device. Arctor only requires a standard PC with one or more large disk drives (internal or external, or a RAID system of any type). Download the free, fully functional trial version and see how easy it is to set up and use Arctor!
Arctor Version 2 offers a lot of new features and enhancements:
* Complete user interface redesign
* New Statistics, Analysis and Maintenance Features: Transfer Bandwidth, Disk Usage, Selected Files, Archived Files, Orphans, File Size Distribution etc.
* S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring helps you to detect problems with your hard disks before they get serious
* Advanced scheduling options for individual rules and rule groups: Rules can be combined to rule groups with individual scheduling options: interval, time-of-day, week day, on request, retry missed schedules
* Advanced Restore Wizard: restore missing/modified files only, preserve read-only file attribute in compression mode
* I/O Bandwidth limiting to conserve network resources
* Commandline Interface to support batch operations
* Support for long file names
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Great potential but as of Q2 2005, still not ready for serious use. The program provides for disk to disk backup by creating a mirrored direcrory/folder structure, where you specify, and places zipped copies of the files in the appropriate folder. A string is appended to the end of the filename for management purposes as multiple copies from incremental backups can be maintained. eg. You can specify a maximum of X copies be retained for Y amount of time. The program is straight forward and fairly easy to use. The program seems stable but will fail on backups if sufficient memory is not available. It's somewhat of a resource hog in it's memory requirements considering what it's doing. I thought I would dedicate an old and otherwise useless WinXP machine with 128MB RAM as a Server to Server backup machine but 128MB wasn't enough - 256 was OK. The user interface is simple - maybe too simple - a little more information such as percent completed and estimated time of completion would be useful. As backups go, it's not particularly speedy, but zipping never is. I'll gladly take the speed hit for the compression. So far, so good. Now for the bad news. It will not backup any files over 2 Gig and when it restores, the restored file's time stamp is destroyed and replaced with the current time. I sent them a note asking about this and promptly received a response. They seem to think that the maximum file size in windows is only 2G - this is nonsense. It was 2G in DOS under FAT 16, FAT 32 supports 4G files, and NTFS is currently limited only by the size of the volume. There technical support people are not very technical. In response to the time and date stamp problem, they said this was by design. If this is if fact true (I obviously doubted the respondents credibility) it needs to be redesigned. This is a backup program. When you restore, you generally want EXACTLY what you backed up to be restored. Imagine doing a full restore and having every file on your system dated today - system files, program files, data files - everything. Duh!
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