Volume Shadow Copy

GRSoftware Releases New Version of GRBackPro Server Backup Software

With GRBackPro, the Backup Administrator can quickly and easily define multiple backup sessions, back up a whole disk, a single folder or just a few files. An integrated scheduler will start a backup automatically without user intervention and conditions can be set such as paths available, no user input, and CPU load to fine tune the backup process. GRBackPro is typically installed as a Windows Service in order to have backups start even if no-one is logged in. It supports Windows Volume Shadow Copy on 32bit systems in order to be able to backup open and locked files. GRBackPro handles long path names up to 1024 characters. Unicode file names are supported even inside the zip archives, and Zip64 is fully supported. Multiple destination disks can be spanned so as to easily build a multi disk backup set. There is a split mode to easily burn DVDs after the backup has been completed. There is a History mode to keep multiple backup sets, and an Integrated Restore facility to easily restore files (just one file, multiple files, complete folders or complete backups). One or more tasks can be executed before and/or after the backup, such as start/stop/restart services, close an application, start a program, pause the backup, open a message box, end a process, or send an E: (which, among other options, will send the backup log report if any error has been found in the backup). GRBackPro will do a full Registry backup either locally (for an easy manual restore) or on the destination disk. NTFS security attributes can be backed up within the regular backup, and there is an option to compress or copy the files and folders. There is an automatic software update facility. This is fully featured backup software with many professional options built to solve any data backup problem. GRBackPro is easy to learn as it has an integrated Backup Wizard to guide the sysop through the process. The release of version 7.4 of GRBackPro Professional Server Backup Software adds some exciting new features and will handle data backup for a single computer up to a large network. With this new Server release, GRSoftware introduces Service Administration featuring access control for specific groups and/or users. Also featured is a new administrative dialog, displayed when a backup is running in Service mode. E: sending now supports SSL/TLS so that E: can be sent to, for example, gmail.com accounts.

Computing Tech: Using the Volume Shadow Copy Service

The Windows Server 2008 R2 Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) is a feature available for NTFS volumes. VSS is used for a backup point in time of an entire volume on the local disk. This backup can be used to quickly restore data that was deleted from the volume locally or via a mapped network drive or network file-sharing. VSS is also used by Windows Server Backup and applications compatible third-party backup to save space and shared NTFS volumes. VSS can make a backup point-in-time volume, including the backup of open files. This entire process is completed in a very short period of time but is powerful enough to be used to restore an entire volume, if necessary. VSS can be scheduled to automatically back up a volume once, twice, or several times a day. This service can be enabled on a volume that contains DFS targets and standard Windows Server 2008 R2 file shares. When the Windows Server Backup program runs a backup of a local NTFS volume, VSS is used by default to create a snapshot or shadow copy of the volume’s current data. This data is saved to the same or another local volume or disk. The Backup program then uses the shadow copy to back up data, leaving the disk free to support users and the operating system. When the backup is complete, the shadow copy is automatically deleted from the local disk. One important point is that in order for VSS backups to work properly, shadow copies should be enabled on every volume and enough free space should exist to store the shadow copies. Even if the schedule is set to once a year, enabling shadow copies on the volume defines the shadow copies with the Volume Shadow Copy provider and reduces VSS errors on backups. Enabling shadow copies for a volume can be very simple. Administrators have more options when it comes to recovering lost or deleted data and, in many cases, can entirely avoid restoring data to disk from a backup tape device or tape library. In addition, select users can be given the necessary rights to restore files that they’ve accidentally deleted.

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