Introduction
Nick Repin from Cristalink was so kind to provide us with a review sample of Firestreamer RM.
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“Firestreamer-RM is backup software for Microsoft Windows, which allows you to use the Microsoft Backup Utility (NTBackup) and Microsoft SQL Server Backup (SQLBackup) to back up your data directly to a wide range of backup media, such as DVD, HDD, Iomega REV™, flash memory and so on. Firestreamer-RM supports data compression and encryption, media and drive spanning, Windows Automated System Recovery, easy backup scheduling, remote media drives and more." |
Firestreamer-RM has the following features:
- Native backup of Windows file systems and components with the Microsoft Backup Utility (NTBackup). All the features of NTBackup are supported, including the volume shadow copy technology.
- Native backup of live Microsoft SQL Server databases with SQLBackup.
- Backup of Microsoft Exchange Server.
- Support for Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) Backup.
- Support for scheduled backups with easy, flexible media management and email notifications.
- Support for 64-bit Microsoft Windows, both x64 and IA-64 editions.
- Support for Microsoft Removable Storage.
- Full integration with Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR), also known as bare metal restore.
- Built-in strong data encryption.
- Built-in compression to store more data on the same media.
- Media spanning to spread large backups across multiple pieces of media with a single media drive.
- Drive spanning to spread large backups across multiple media drives to eliminate frequent manual media changes.
- Support for remote media drives via iSCSI.
- Fast direct writing to the backup media with no intermediate files.
- Huge advantages over the BKF files and packet writing (DLA) software.
- Support for media drives with no drive letters assigned.
- Painless transition from tape backup to other media.
- Extensive Drives support: Internal and external drives, IDE/ATAPI/SATA, SCSI and iSCSI, USB, IEEE-1394/FireWire and any other media drives recognized by Windows as fixed or removable disk drives or DVD.
- Extensive media support: DVD-RAM, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL (Double Layer), Iomega REV, HDD (hard disk drive), Flash memory (pen drives, CompactFlash, SecureDigital etc), Any other media recognized by Windows as fixed or removable disk media.
Firestreamer-RM provides the following features for scheduled backups:
- Ability to overwrite unrecognized media.
- Ability to overwrite expired media.
- Ability to append to previous backups.
- Support for media and drive spanning.
- Support for scheduled ASR backups.
- Support for SMTP email notifications with log file attachments.
- Customizable parser for NTBackup log files.
- Scheduled tasks summary report.
Firestreamer-RM supports the following software:
- Microsoft Backup Utility (NTBackup).
- Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) Backup Wizard.
- Microsoft SQL Server (SQLBackup) 6.5, 7.0 and 2000.
- Microsoft Exchange Server.
- Microsoft Removable Storage.
- Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR).
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4.
- Microsoft Windows XP.
- Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition (AMD64, Intel EM64T).
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (AMD64, Intel EM64T).
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 IA-64 Edition (Intel Itanium).
- Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2000.
- Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003.
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