Archiware PresSTORE P4.2 Version

Archiware GmbH extends the functionality of its SMB backup system PresSTORE P4.2.

It has new features, including an automated fail-safe backup rotation, multi-selection restore and metadata import for the archive module.

Josef Doods, CEO and co-founder of Archiware commented: "PresSTORE 4, offered our customers simple asset management through our searchable index and extensive support for thumbnail previews. PresSTORE P4.2 is a further step in this direction, adding meta-data support. It’s the perfect solution for SMB’s that need a straightforward and easily administered data management solution but not wishing to deal with any unnecessary complexity. PresSTORE is a reliable and cost-effective approach."

PresSTORE P4.2 offers improvements
to help secure, and retrieve your backups:

Fail-safe backup rotation: Alternating Backup – When performing on-site/off-site tape rotation, forgetting to swap the tapes can result in a missed backup, and risk data-loss. P4.2 provides an improved, more convenient workflow. Different tape pools can be specified within a single backup configuration, and PresSTORE will always write the tapes it finds available, taking care to maintain a full data-set on all sets of tapes.
Restore selection – When restoring backup and archive data, it is now possible to select multiple files and directories within the index and restore everything in a single job. A list of the current selection remains visible until the selection is completed and then the restore can commence.
Metadata – If you’re archiving data with embedded metadata (XMP, IPTC, EXIF etc), life gets a lot easier. Through a simple script, PresSTORE Archive can ingest the metadata from the source files, and add it to the archive index thereby making it searchable. Location of offline-data from your archive becomes much more flexible as a result.
Other new features – To help with the PresSTORE’s administration, P4.2 includes many additional improvements including a more detailed job monitor, per-tape job logs, automated client software updates and using the tape barcode as volume name. Backup2Go receives network-specific backups which can check the network you’re connected to plus a handy disk-usage display.

PresSTORE P4.2 is available at €550 (for professional users). Update is free for users of P4 version.