BackupChain is a simple to use, yet powerful tool for IT professionals. It is fully automatic, configurable, and offers file version differencing (deduplication / delta compression), virtual machine and database support, and a strong multithreaded engine for fast protection.
Our mission is to provide you with the best backup tool on the market, giving you full control over your backups. Once you have tried BackupChain,
you'll agree that no other tool provides the same set of professional features to fine-tune, manage, and process your data backups.
We believe in empowering the IT professional with easy to use yet powerful features, as well as open data format standards so you remain in control and ownership of your data.
A great set of features in BackupChain focuses on virtual machine protection. Granular Backups are backups that target files and folders stored inside a virtual machine. Instead of protecting the entire VM, you simply pull individual objects to be backed up--it's all happening through the host without using agents inside the VM. See this example for Hyper-V. The Granular Restore process is also a huge time saver: instead of restoring huge virtual machines, you simply pull out a file from your backup chain when you need it. It takes less than a minute!
These features are available not only on Hyper-V Server 2012 Core, but also on Windows Server 2012 and older versions, as well as for VMware and VirtualBox. Naturally all virtual machines are backed up live while they are running without interruptions, and on Hyper-V you can also back up cluster shared volumes the same way you back up local VMs.
There is no need to back up the same huge database or virtual machine file over and over again. In-file deduplication works incrementally and differentially on a file-by-file basis. BackupChain scans the file and detects which contents changed. Then it compresses and backs up only those changes since the last cycle. BackupChain is the only server backup solution on the market to achieve this over standard FTP, as well as to local and network targets. See this page on how to back up Hyper-V virtual machines using BackupChain's deduplication.
For each backup task, you can fine-tune how each file type is to be processed, such as: File Versioning, Incremental and Differential Deduplication, Retention Periods, Compression Type, Encryption, etc. You can back up files simultaneously and also run tasks concurrently as necessary. In addition, file may be retained by revision count, i.e. you can set up BackupChain to keep the last N versions of a particular file type.
Whether you want full speed ahead using all available CPU cores and hard drive bandwidth, or a just a discreet background task, the entire spectrum is available. By limiting CPU cores and setting bandwidth limits you may reduce the system load of your backup or give it a boost at quiet hours.
Our team is committed to providing you the best recovery solution and provides free support during trial periods to get all your questions answered. If you need assistance, we are here to help!
