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| NTI Celebrates Availability of 4 New Versions of Backup Now 5 NTI announces the immediate availability of all four editions of its Backup Now 5 backup and recovery software for Windows PCs. NTI is now offering the Standard, Continuous, Image and Advanced editions of Backup Now 5 with newly reduced pricing. NTI's newest version of Backup Now is the only backup software to provide four tiered editions and a completely modular upgrade path. With four tiers to choose from, stand-alone, mobile and network computer users can buy the features they need now and can cost-effectively move up to the next tier as their needs change. Like the previous versions, the new editions of Backup Now 5 take the confusion and complexity out of data protection for inexperienced users while providing power users with flexibility and control. With NTI's trademarked Easy Steps interface, users simply select what they want to backup, where to back it up and when. All versions of Backup Now 5 continue to offer individual file/folder backup to virtually any system-attached drive including USB flash, mobile storage devices (micro drives), internal and external hard drives, NAS devices, and more. Other features range from 128/256-bit data encryption and password protection to disc and hard drive spanning. With the easy-to-use wizard-driven scheduler, unattended backups can be quickly set up. New features that have been added to the Standard, Continuous, Image and Advanced editions of Backup Now 5 include: • Customizable My Profile; • Support for BD media; • Open File Manager to backup files even if they are open; • Turn off Outlook before backup; • Improved file filtering with include/exclude options; • Auto standby after backup - Stand-by, Hibernate, Shut-Down, Log-off, None; • Email notification of backup job status; • Concurrent backup job support; • Single job concurrent multi-drive backup; • XML-based job file format; • Job suspension/resume; • Centralized job monitoring/tracking; • Direct client machine backup; • Additional system/network utilities; • New migration feature; • Report center. The Standard Edition enables users to select the files and folders they want to backup or backup everything. With the email and profile backup/recovery tools that are included, users can archive their important emails and critical data files as well as their current Windows configuration for their desktop layout, regional settings, bookmarks and more. This gives users the flexibility to quickly recover individual files that have been lost or restore the entire system to its backed-up state. The Continuous Edition provides offers all of the features in the Standard Edition plus the ability to automatically back up data, photo, audio and video files every time a change occurs. Backup schedules can also be set by the minute, hour, day, week and start time(s). Users have the option of saving an unlimited number of revisions, a specific number of revisions (1-1000) or no revisions to ensure that backups are always kept in sync with the original file. In addition to conveniently executing backup jobs transparently in the background without disturbing the user, this edition does not take up valuable PC resources that could slow system performance. With the files preserved in their native format, no additional software is necessary to restore files. To restore, users simply do a drag-and-drop or right-click and select restore on the files they want to recover. All Standard features are included. With the Image Edition, NTI adds complete image backup capabilities. Users can restore their entire hard drive including the operating system, all applications and all data in a simple, one-step process. For complete volume recovery, a bootable emergency recovery disc can be created that automatically restores the system. Users also have the tools they need to create partitioning on a blank disc. All Standard features are included. The Advanced Edition includes all of the backup support available with the other three editions (file-level, image, continuous), and one-step complete restoring plus the ultimate in backup and recovery-backup of open files that are in use. All four editions of NTI Backup Now 5 can be used with Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista systems. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |