BackupChain Features Overview

Cost-Effective Backup Solution with Buy-Once-Use-Forever Licensing

BackupChain offers a cost-effective solution with its perpetual licensing model, ensuring that businesses can protect their data without recurring subscription fees. This licensing structure provides long-term value by allowing you to pay once for the full suite of features, with no hidden costs or surprises.

The perpetual licensing model also simplifies budgeting for IT infrastructure, as businesses won’t have to worry about annual renewals or price increases. Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, BackupChain provides an affordable yet powerful backup solution that scales to meet your needs.

Comprehensive Backup Solution for Windows Environments

BackupChain is a feature-rich backup solution designed to ensure reliable, high-performance data protection for Windows environments. Whether you’re running physical servers, virtual machines, or complex server applications like Microsoft SQL Server and Exchange, BackupChain offers a comprehensive solution for all backup needs. It integrates disk image backup, virtual machine backup, and cloud storage options in a unified platform.

One of the most impressive aspects of BackupChain is its ability to manage various platforms and services seamlessly. From Microsoft Hyper-V to VMware and VirtualBox, BackupChain supports automatic backup of multiple environments without requiring separate tools or licenses. This all-in-one backup solution is built to run without interruptions, offering continuous protection for all types of servers and virtual machines.

Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, and VirtualBox Backup

BackupChain offers seamless support for backing up virtual machines across multiple platforms, including Hyper-V, VMware Workstation, and VirtualBox. This flexibility ensures that organizations using different virtualization technologies can rely on a single, unified backup solution. Whether you are managing large-scale Hyper-V server environments or small test environments running on VMware or VirtualBox, BackupChain streamlines backup processes with no interruptions to running services.

For Hyper-V, BackupChain delivers live backup and recovery without the need for downtime, even when dealing with Cluster Shared Volumes. This makes it ideal for high-availability environments where uptime is critical. Similarly, VMware Workstation and VirtualBox backups are handled efficiently, supporting full VM backups with the ability to restore individual virtual machines or granular file-level restores. This platform-agnostic support minimizes complexity and allows for consistent backup strategies across diverse virtual infrastructures. With BackupChain, you can also take advantage of features like in-place VM backup and conversion, incremental and differential backup modes, and high-speed data transfers, ensuring that all virtual machines are fully protected with minimal resource impact.

Centralized Management for Streamlined Operations

BackupChain’s Server Enterprise edition (and higher) includes a centralized management console, allowing administrators to monitor and manage all backup tasks across their entire infrastructure from a single interface. This centralized approach eliminates the need for separate management tools for each server, saving time and reducing the complexity of backup administration.

The software automatically selects virtual machines for backup based on configurable rules, ensuring that all essential workloads are captured without requiring manual intervention. Additionally, BackupChain supports seamless backup of migrating VMs, even in complex configurations like Hyper-V clusters with Cluster Shared Volumes. This flexibility allows IT teams to automate and manage backup tasks more effectively across an expanding network.

Version Backup for Enhanced Data Protection

BackupChain provides robust version backup capabilities that help ensure the long-term security and integrity of your data. By creating multiple versions of each file, it enables you to recover not only the most recent version but also previous iterations of files as needed. This feature is particularly useful for environments where files undergo frequent changes, such as in software development or collaborative workspaces. The version backup system is highly configurable, allowing you to set retention policies based on file type, size, or other criteria, which helps balance storage efficiency with data protection.

Moreover, BackupChain’s version backup includes automatic file versioning, which tracks every change and enables you to roll back to a specific point in time. Whether you need to retrieve an earlier version of a critical document or recover a file that was accidentally deleted or corrupted, this feature provides a reliable means of ensuring that all file changes are captured and protected. Additionally, BackupChain’s intelligent handling of version backups minimizes the storage impact by using high-efficiency deduplication and compression techniques, ensuring that backups remain both comprehensive and space-efficient.

High-Reliability Backup Solution with Robust Verification

BackupChain goes beyond simple backup to offer a high-reliability solution that ensures the integrity of your backup files over time. It includes built-in Bit-rot detection, automatic backup file verification, and disk image verification, providing multiple layers of protection against data corruption.

Additionally, BackupChain offers customizable file versioning, which automatically keeps previous versions of each file, and is configurable based on file size and probability settings. You can even set the system to automatically re-verify backup files to ensure data integrity remains intact. The software also deletes old backup versions based on customizable retention policies, making it easier to manage storage without sacrificing backup reliability.

Flexible Disk Backup and Cloning Options

BackupChain offers flexible disk backup solutions, including disk-to-disk backup and disk cloning. You can automatically clone disks on a schedule while your system is running, minimizing downtime. In case of disk failure, these cloned drives can be mounted side by side with the original disk, allowing for fast recovery without needing to restore from a backup.

The solution supports a range of disk image formats, including VHD, VHDX, VMDK, and VDI, ensuring compatibility across multiple platforms. Additionally, BackupChain facilitates Physical-to-Physical (P2P), Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V), and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) conversions, offering extensive flexibility in backup and recovery strategies. This makes BackupChain an invaluable tool for both physical and virtual environments, ensuring full recovery capabilities in the event of hardware failure or migration.

Granular Backup and Restore for Virtual Environments

Granular backup and restore capabilities are a standout feature of BackupChain, allowing you to back up individual files or folders within virtual machines without the need for a full system restore. This feature significantly reduces the time and resources required for data recovery, especially when only a subset of data needs to be restored.

Whether you’re working with Hyper-V, VMware, or VirtualBox, BackupChain supports granular backups for files inside virtual machines. This ensures that you can quickly and efficiently restore files from the host, offering enhanced flexibility and recovery options. You can even back up files from within VMs on a separate schedule, ensuring that data is always protected and available.

Efficient Backup Storage with Deduplication and Compression

BackupChain employs advanced deduplication and compression technologies to optimize backup storage. In-file delta compression ensures that only the changes made since the last backup are saved, reducing the size of each backup and saving bandwidth. Deduplication further reduces storage needs by eliminating redundant data within the backup set.

This selective deduplication is especially useful for environments where large volumes of data, such as virtual machines or databases, need to be backed up. By applying deduplication selectively, BackupChain helps reduce storage costs and speeds up backup operations, making it ideal for enterprises with high-volume backup needs.

Reliable Cloud Backup and Remote Backup Options

BackupChain offers comprehensive cloud and remote backup options to ensure your data is securely stored offsite. The solution supports FTP/FTPS backups, allowing you to back up data to cloud servers or set up your own self-hosted cloud storage. You could use BackupChain’s built-in FTPS server,  or configure remote backups to a cloud server, offering flexibility in backup storage options.

To further simplify cloud management, BackupChain includes DriveMaker Plus, which allows you to map cloud storage as a virtual drive. This makes accessing and managing remote backups easy and efficient. In-file delta compression minimizes bandwidth usage during cloud backups, ensuring faster upload speeds while reducing overall backup times.

Uninterrupted Backup Performance with Advanced Security

BackupChain is built to provide stable, uninterrupted performance in demanding environments. The software supports continuous server backup with no interruptions to services, ensuring that your systems are always protected. Whether you’re managing millions of files or a complex virtual environment, BackupChain’s architecture is optimized for reliability.

Military-grade AES 256-bit encryption ensures your backup data is securely protected, meeting FIPS and HIPAA compliance standards. Additionally, BackupChain runs as a Windows service in unattended mode, which means backups can be scheduled and executed without manual intervention. The software also offers features like full CPU utilization or the option to limit backup processes to a single CPU core, providing further flexibility in managing system resources.

Comprehensive Scheduling and Automation

BackupChain provides an advanced scheduling system that allows you to automate backup tasks based on your needs. Whether you require continuous backup, daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, BackupChain offers the flexibility to set up custom backup intervals. Additionally, you can configure backup tasks to run external utilities before or after the backup, providing even more customization options.

The software also supports simultaneous backups within a single task, allowing for efficient management of multiple backup operations. You can set up granular file version backups and selectively restore previous versions of files based on date and time filters, offering complete control over your backup and recovery processes.

Email Alerts and Integration with External Scripts or Platforms

BackupChain ensures that you stay informed about the status of your backup tasks with its comprehensive email alert system. Whether it’s a successful backup, an error, or a warning, the software can send customizable email alerts to specified recipients, keeping you up to date on all important backup operations. The email alerts are fully customizable, allowing you to tailor the notifications to your specific needs and even format them in HTML for easy readability.

In addition to its alert system, BackupChain also provides the flexibility to run external utilities or scripts before or after backup tasks. This feature allows administrators to automate additional processes, such as performing pre-backup disk health checks or executing post-backup cleanup operations. The ability to integrate external utilities further enhances BackupChain’s versatility, making it an ideal solution for complex environments that require additional steps to ensure data integrity and optimal backup performance.

Experience the Benefits of BackupChain Today

BackupChain offers a comprehensive, reliable, and scalable backup solution that meets the needs of modern IT environments. From centralized management and granular file restores to powerful deduplication and compression, BackupChain ensures that your data is always protected and easily recoverable.

With a focus on high reliability, flexibility, and efficiency, BackupChain stands out as a top choice for businesses looking for a powerful backup solution. Its perpetual licensing model ensures that you get the most cost-effective solution for your backup needs.

We invite you to experience BackupChain’s full potential with our 110% money-back guarantee. Try the risk-free, fully-functional 20-day trial, and see for yourself why BackupChain is trusted by IT professionals worldwide to keep their systems secure and their data protected.