Genie-Soft, October 25 - 2004 - Genie Backup Manager Home Edition is a Backup and Restore utility that carries an extremely user friendly wizard-based interface and can automate the backup of files and folders, emails, settings, programs and more. It supports Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 (Professional), NT 4 (Workstation with SP6), and Windows XP (Home Edition/Professional)

The software can also backup to a wide range of storage media, including: external/internal hard disks, CDs, DVDs, memory sticks, remote locations using FTP service, and removable media devices.

Genie Backup Manager Home Edition 5.0 features a sleeker more intuitive user interface than its predecessor and more advanced features such as AES encryption and cataloging.


Genie Backup Manager Home Edition New Feature Summary

o 128-bit AES Encryption: GBM Home Edition uses AES encryption to protect backed up data privacy. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard. This encryption method, has been adopted by NIST as an FIPS-approved (Federal Information Processing Standard) symmetric encryption algorithm that may be used by U.S. Government organizations (and others) to protect sensitive information
o Managing open file: These days few companies can afford to close their running software to create a "backup window" for backup software to be able to archive data reliably and successfully, and most standard backup solutions are not equipped to handle files that are being used by other applications, resulting in the failure of these solutions in performing the very task they were bought to perform . Genie Backup Manager Home Edition offers OFM (Open File Manager), an optional add-on software, that ensures that all data is backed up.
o Cataloging: The catalog is a library containing a history of backup jobs and the files contained in each backup run. With this feature users can keep track of file versions and run, view and extract files directly from the backup set without going through the restore wizard
o Support for Visual Accessibility Options: GBM Home Edition supports visual accessibility options; changing Windows appearance will change GBM Home Edition's GUI making the software more readable for people with color blindness, weak vision etc ...