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Iperius Backup

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Developer(s)
  
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Development status
  
Active

Initial release
  
May 5, 2012

Stable release
  
Iperius Backup 4.5.2 / March 9, 2016; 11 months ago (2016-03-09)

Operating system
  
Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012

Available in
  
Italian, English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Portuguese

Iperius Backup is a backup software for Windows. It allows users to make automatic backups of files and folders on many devices: external USB hard drives, RDX drives, NAS, LTO/DAT tape drives, networked computers, Cloud storage and FTP Backup. Iperius Backup includes drive imaging, backup of SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database and disaster recovery capabilities.

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Overview

Iperius Backup is a backup software and synchronization utility compatible with all Windows platforms. The software is released in different editions: there is a freeware version with limited functionalities, followed by an Essential, an Advanced and a Full edition.

Main features

  • Installation as Windows service
  • Compatible with all Windows editions, including Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
  • Unlimited backup jobs, unlimited source items and unlimited destinations
  • Parallel execution of multiple backups
  • Open file backup (copy of locked files with VSS)
  • Hot backup of Hyper-V virtual machines
  • Hot backup of Outlook files, Exchange archives and databases
  • Running of external scripts / programs, before and after the backup
  • Special variables to customize paths and settings
  • Chaining of multiple backup jobs
  • Automatic authentication to access network shared folders
  • Data encryption with high-level security (AES 256 bit)
  • Exclusion and inclusion filters for specific items and file extensions
  • Integrated scheduler to run the backup automatically
  • Automatic computer shutdown
  • Portable

    • FTP Backup

    Iperius Backup is a software for FTP backup on any type of server or NAS. Iperius can send backups to a remote server with a few configurations, with the secure FTPS protocol and also with zip compression and AES 256 bit encryption. It can perform automated upload of entire websites, limit the transfer bandwidth, make parallel transfers to multiple servers.

    SQL Server Backup

    Iperius Backup is a software for backing up SQL Server databases. Compatible with all editions of Microsoft database server: 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012. It back up unlimited databases and servers, even remote, and run the restore in a simple way, even creating a new database.

    Oracle backup

    Iperius Backup is a software to make backups of Oracle databases, version 9i, 10g and 11g, from any Windows operating system. Iperius can also make backups of the free database Oracle Express Edition (Oracle XE). In a single backup program there are several methods to protect Oracle databases, from the basic RMAN backup to the VSS backup (snapshot).

    Cloud backup

    Iperius Backup can use the free cloud storage services offered by well-known providers like Google or Microsoft. Iperius Backup allows to save files remotely to Google Drive, Dropbox, One Drive, S3 or Azure. It supports automatic compression and AES encryption.

    Tape backup

    Iperius Backup supports any tape drive. It allows users to save files to DAT, DLT, SDLT, LTO 1/2/3/4 - LTO 5 and LTO 6 devices. It supports data compression and encryption, and parallel backups to multiple tape drives at the same time.

    Drive Image

    Iperius Backup supports the Windows drive imaging (block-level) backup, that allows to copy/clone the whole disk. The disk image created by Iperius Backup can be used to restore the system even on a dissimilar hardware (hardware independent restore). It is also possible to restore individual files and folders.

    File Synchronization

    This program can synchronize files and folders to external hard drives or to network devices (like NAS servers). It is possible to copy files and folders to an unlimited number of destinations and keep mirror copies deleting those files no more existing in the source folders.

    Zip compression

    This program includes compression and encryption features. It creates compatible zip files, and it is possible to choose whether to protect zip files with a password or synchronize the zip file content. Iperius Backup can create unlimited-size zip archives (Zip 64) and it fully supports unicode and long paths.

    E-mail notifications

    After a backup is completed, Iperius can send an e-mail containing the detailed report of the backup procedures (also through the secure SSL protocol), to keep the user informed about the backup result. It is possible to specify different e-mail recipients and different sending conditions (e.g. to send the e-mail depending on the backup result).

    Iperius Online Storage

    Iperius Online Storage: it is possible to save data online with the Iperius cloud backup. With FTP and FTPS support, compression and AES client-side encryption.

    Minimum hardware requirements

  • Intel Pentium Processor
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 10 MB free disk space

    • Supported operating systems

    XP, Vista, Server 2003/R2, Windows 7, Server 2008/R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8

    References

    Iperius Backup Wikipedia
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