Genie Backup Manager Pro 5.0 Released

The new edition of the award winning Genie Backup Manager series is very easy to use yet powerful and flexible, with many new hot features and enhancements, most of which were the production of close follow up on feedback and suggestions of Genie-Soft software users.

August 2, 2004 -- Genie Backup Manager Professional is a Backup and Restore utility that carries an extremely user friendly wizard-based interface and can automate the backup of files and folders, emails, settings, programs and more; users do not need to point GBM Pro to their critical data, it already knows where to find it, says Muayyad Shehadeh, General Manager of Genie-Soft inc.

The software can also backup to virtually any storage media, including: external/internal hard disks, CDs, DVDs, memory sticks, remote locations using FTP service, removable media devices, along with the newly added support for tape backup.

Genie Backup Manager Professional 5.0 features a sleeker more intuitive user interface than its standard edition predecessor and more advanced features designed to cater for the data protection needs of single users with standalone PCs up to small and medium businesses.

Open File Manager

Genie-Soft has also partnered with the veteran security solutions providers St. Bernard Software to offer its customers Open File Manager (OFM) as an optional utility that compliments Genie Backup Manager Pros backup power.

Open File Manager is the leading open file management solution for Microsoft and Netware environments, with over 300,000 licenses sold worldwide. Its rich feature set helps IT professionals automate backup of open files, improve application availability and lower operating costs.

Open File Manager enables existing backup software to back up open files, ensuring business continuity and protection of mission-critical data across the enterprise.

Genie Backup Manager Professional New Feature Summary
o     Backup to Tape Support
o     GRunScript: GBM Pro backup jobs can be created and configured using XML based scripting to create scripts that can be shared and customized.
o     AES Encryption: GBM Pro uses AES encryption to protect backed up data privacy. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard. This encryption method, has been adopted by NIST as an FIPS-approved (Federal Information Processing Standard) symmetric encryption algorithm that may be used by U.S. Government organizations (and others) to protect sensitive information
o     Managing open files: These days few companies can afford to close their running software to create a backup window for backup software to be able to archive data reliably and successfully, and most standard backup solutions are not equipped to handle files that are being used by other applications, resulting in the failure of these solutions in performing the very task they were bought to perform . Genie Backup Manager Pro offers OFM (Open File Manager), an optional ad-on software, that ensures that all data is backed up.
o     Cataloging: The catalog is a library containing a history of backup jobs and the files contained in each backup run. With this feature users can keep track of file versions and run, view and extract files directly from the backup set without going through the restore wizard
o     Preserving Alternative Data Streams: NTFS alternate data streams (ADSs) are provided for compatibility with the Macintosh Hierarchical File System (HFS), which uses resource forks to maintain information associated with a file, such as icons, etc...
Manually copying files containing ADS from an NTFS formatted drive to a FAT drive would cause the loss of the ADS information, unlike other backup software GBM Pro can preserve ADS contained in backed up files regardless of the file system of the destination backup media
o     Value added tools: GBM Pro offers two stand alone utilities that when used combined provide high level data privacy protection
     Genie-Wipe: A value added utility that permanently deletes files by repeatedly writing over the data contained in the file using special algorithms until the file is virtually irretrievable
     Genie Eyes-Only: Genie Eyes-Only is GBM Pro's stand alone encryption utility; it supports AES encryption in 3 different strengths: 128-bit AES, 192-bit AES and 256-bit AES.
o     Supports Visual Accessibility Options: GBM Pro supports visual accessibility options; changing Windows appearance will change GBM Pro's GUI making the software more readable for people with color blindness, weak vision etc ...

Pricing and Availability

Genie Backup Manager Professional is currently available directly from Genie-Soft at www.genie-soft.com for $70. but during the month of August Genie Backup Manager Pro v 5.0
(Single User)is Only for $49.95. Existing customers of GBM 4.0 Standard can purchase GBM Pro 5.0 for $25 through the month of August, after which upgrading will be at $35.

Volume licensing and site licensing plans are also available. For more information please email us at e-mail protected from spam bots or call +962-77-236237, fax: +962-6-5167235.

About Genie-Soft Inc.
Genie-Soft is a commercial developer of backup software solutions, it was established in 2001 as a 2-man strong home based company and grew into a full fledged software developing company with international partnerships, competing with veteran industry leaders in the field of security solutions providing.

The privately held company is based in Jordan. For more information, visit www.genie-soft.com.

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