• Support backup of running virtual machines by taking snapshots by using standard secure copy protocol which supports VMware ESX, VMware ESXi
• by copying the file directly which supports VMware Server for Windows/Linux
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Incremental backups can now be merged at the server end, making a restore much faster.  We have always offered two types of incremental backup, incremental and differential.  Differential will product faster restore, whilst taking slightly more storage space, incremental will produce faster backups, and use less storage space, but restore could take alot longer.  Now you can have the best of both Worlds, by choosing incremental, but then selecting delta merge, offering much faster restores as well as fast backups. 

A nice feature of the GBData online backup software is the ability to remind Laptop users to run a backup.

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Get your attention?

You never get something for nothing, right?  Wrong!

Here at GBData we offer every potential client a free 30 day trail account, during which you can backup up to 80G of data.  This trial uses the full working software, and is not cut back in any way.  The trial is absolutely free all we ask is your name and email address, not to much to ask, is it?!  To try it all you need to go is go here and enter these details, after which you will be redirected to the download page, and from here you can download the correct software for your operating system.  Install it with our famous no hassle 3 minute install, and you can then sit back, content that your business data is being protected by the professionals.

If at the end of the free trial you do not wish to continue on to a paid scheme, then that is fine, your data limit will be automatically reduced to 500M, and you may continue to use this service free of charge, for ever.  We mean this, we will never charge you for this service, it is free to use, to continue to protect your essential data, and this includes free software updates too!.  How and why do we offer this free online or remote backup software?   We believe in putting something back into the business community, and this is part of this.

Good business disaster planning should include the eventuality of not being able to gain access to your business, and this is an issue for this method of backup.  Also should the hard drive fail, you have lost all of your backups, and all hard drives fail, mobile units often sooner because they are treated with less respect.

Another major problem with this method of backup is that rarely is the data encrypted or access protected, like it would be when stored on the native PC, with even basic user verification/password.  This breaks the rules of the data protection act, and recently the authority’s have been coming down much harder on businesses that are breaking the rules.

However, are you happy to trust all of your business data to a unit costing say £60?  What would be the cost of replacing the data?

GBData online backup or Remote Backup software will take al of these issues away.  By installing the software on all of the PC’s requiring backup, or simply installing it on one PC and mapping the other computers through the network, all of your cmputers will be protected.

Our famous five minute install will leave you covered, and our 80G/30 day trial lets your try the service free from worries or commitments.

FamilyShield

We at GBData have long been supporters of OpenDNS, however they have just launched a new free service aimed at protecting families from the darker side of the internet.  This service, called FamilyShield redirects all DNS queries to their own servers to decide if the site is listed and if so, should it be blocked.  The sites are voted for via its own users, including additions and therefore whilst not foolproof, is a great way for the community to take an active role in the selection of which content is apppropriote for their needs, on a case by case basis, as well as deciding if the proposed categories are in fact correct.

For families it is great, because most broadband connections are now made by router, by making a change here you can easily protect every PC in the home.  It is not foolproof, and advanced users can sign up for the normal OpenDNS service to take greater control.

We whole heartedly support the launch of this free service, and recommend all families to change to this service now.

[StartBackupRqt] IP=’User-IP-Address’ User=’Username’ BackupSet=’Backup Set (BackupID)’ BackupJob=’YYYY-MM-DD-hh-mm-ss’ StartTime=’YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss’ CurrentTime=’YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss’ Error=’null’. Client agent will retry shortly.

The message suggests that the request for a backup set’s file list from the GBData server has timed out.

When a backup job is initiated, the GBDataOBM client would request for a backup set’s file list from the GBData server. As the request is made, the GBData server will generate the file list and compress this information to “block” file(s), where the block(s) are then sent to the GBDataOBM client (as each block is generated).

During the generation of the file list , if the time taken exceeded the timeout period for GBDataOBM, the retry message is flagged. GBDataOBM would also submit this retry null error to GBData server.