FIBS is a lightweight, solid and fast scheduler so as to meet most backup-tasks-needs. It uses firebird/interbase command line tool gbak.exe to backup safetly and mirrors it to any other disc or computer for extra protection against backup-disc crash. FIBS can create GZip compatible compressed backup files if user want to save backup disc space.
One of the noticable feature of FIBS is that it has multi-threaded architecture. Every backup process (including zipping) is executed in a separate thread. That is, there is no serialisation of backup process including compressing.
- FIBS supports all Firebird and Interbase versions.
- FIBS can run either as a desktop application or as a Windows Service.
- FIBS can backup local or remote databases.
- FIBS is designed to solve daily backup needs. So it uses daily rotated schedule.
- FIBS uses Gbak.exe to backup databases. So it`s safe and fast.
- FIBS supports two basic backup file preserving styles: preserving defined number of backup files and preserving newer than an age.
- FIBS can create compressed backups in GZip format for compact results.
- FIBS can create compressed backup for databases greater than 4GB in size.
- FIBS doesn`t need any dll or anything else for compressing.
- FIBS creates incrementally named backup files.
- FIBS can check validity of databases before backup.
- FIBS uses Gfix.exe with –v –n switches to validate databases. So it`s also safe and fast...
- FIBS can mirror backup files up to 3 different destination.
- FIBS can mirror backup files onto ftp servers.
- FIBS can send email notification if any error occurs.
- FIBS has built-in SMTP server to send mails.
- FIBS can run external files (batch, executables) to make it possible for users to carry out extra tasks related with the last backups.
- FIBS produces separate logs for each task.
- FIBS appeares only in the primary monitor but not all monitors in multi-monitored systems.