Review of the Genie-Soft Genie Backup Manager

The Genie Backup Manager offers a very consistent and easy to use user interface to help you back up your data quickly and easily.  The Backup Manager is also a very versatile backup utility that is easy to use for the inexperienced user but also allows the PC expert to take control of how the backup jobs are executed.  There are two versions; Genie Backup Manager Home for the home user and Genie Backup Manager Professional for the Small and Medium Business users.  Here is a quick review of the Genie Backup Manager.

The Backup Manager allows you to back up your Megabytes and Gigabytes to a wide array of storage formats including an online backup service.  Here is a quick list of the different kinds of media that you can use to back up your important information:

Local/LAN

• Backup to Internal/External drives, RAID, NAS, SANs without the need to identify backup locations and allocate size.
• Backup transfer method for network locations 
• Removable Media
• Supports USB External drives, flash disks, JAZ, Zip, Floppy, and Rev
  Auto erase before backup
  
• USB locator, finds your drive even if assigned to a different drive letter

FTP

• Supports Passive/active mode
• Bandwidth throttling
• View files directly from site 

CD/DVD

• Supports CD-R, CD-RW, DVD±RW, DVD±R, DVD RAM, Blu-ray, HD internal and external burners
• Multi disk spanning
• Prevent buffer underruns with BURN Proof technology, enables continuous recording without errors
• Direct backup to disc using packet writing support
• Backup to multiple discs without the need of original backup

Tape

• Supports all IDE/SCSI Tape Devices
• View backed up data without the need of media
• Eject tape after backup
• Eject, Erase, Format, Tension operations
• Auto erase before backup
• Catalog generation from media
• Multi tape spanning

Online

• Fast backup and restore
• High connectivity, auto resume
• Supports limiting and rotating backups
• Fully integrated in Genie Backup Pro
• Easy to manage online space and backups
• Multi-level security; SSL, AES
• Bandwidth throttling always or specific times of the day

Genie Backup Manager’s dependable and perceptive user interface makes it very user friendly and easy to use. With its wizard based interface, you can go through the steps of creating a backup with the assurance that you have done it correctly. Quick help can be found on each wizard page for guidance. The Genie Backup Manager Agent resides in the system tray, allowing access to many of the backup functions, but without the need to open the Backup Manager itself.

Here are a couple screenshots of the backup procedure using Genie Backup Manager Home.  This is the main interface where you choose which type of task you are going to perform.  Click on the backup button to use the wizard to create a backup job.

The next screen allows you to choose where you want to backup your data.  You can choose to backup locally or on a LAN, removable media devices, remote location using FTP, CD or DVD or their online backup service.

The next screenshot allows you to select what files or folders you want to back up. 

The restore process is just as easy to use as the backup procedure itself.  Simply click on the Restore button to start the restore process.

Select the backup job you want to restore.

Choose the files and folders you want to restore.  It is as simple as that.

To create a Disaster recovery job in case of a total system failure, you can use the disaster recovery wizard to help you with that task.  The Genie Disaster Recovery process focuses on restoring Windows system files, programs, Documents and system state if Windows fails to boot properly.  The Disaster Recovery Wizard helps you create a bootable disk and then a backup job that contains all of the pertinent data to restore your entire system successfully.