D_back software features Preparing a list of records to be backed up You can select records from your personal computer, local network resources or remote FTP sites. You can exclude unnecessary records by using separated records list. Wildcards (* ?) are allowed in all document folder names and paths for flexible records selection; Ftp backup This backup instrument can be used as FTP client for unattended downloading records from remote FTP. Built-in Ftp Backup feature will allow you to back up data from ftp sites as simply as from usual computer or local network; Using FTP as backup storage You can benefit one or further FTP sites as an additional storage media for saving your data. Backup to FTP is performed automatically, after the archive is maked in the destination directory on your local or network drives; Backup to CD or DVD Our backup software gives you an opportunity for burning maked backups to rewritable CD or DVD; Choice of the best data backup strategy for any kind of data Five built-in backup types (Simple, Stack, Advanced Stack, Incremental, Differential) are incredibly versatile and capable to satisfy requirements both of beginners and advanced users; Overcoming Zip 2.04g limitations (4Gb / 65535) for backing up big volumes of data PKZips Zip64 sustain is implemented. You can compress up to 2 147 483 647 records into an archive. Uncompressed, Compressed, and Archive document folder sizes can be up to 2^63-1 bytes in length (at about 18 million terabytes). If a zip document folder does not extend beyond any of the PKZIP 2.04g limitations (4Gb / 65535 files) then the archive is maked in old zip format, according to the PKZIP 2.04g zip document folder specification; Using external compression programs (Winrar, Winzip, Arj, Ace) for backing up As a rule D_back creates backups as a set of of compressed records in standard Zip format. However if you have installed other document folder compressors, they can be used for backing up as well; Protecting backups by passwords The major compression formats sustain password protection. The program permit you to benefit this feature and offers flexible data protection strategies for various situations; Pre and post-processing You can specify start-up of any program which must be performed before or after backing up; Sending backups via e-Mail In addition to a usual way of data backup to network drives or remote FTP our software offers you an excellent opportunity to send backups via e-Mail to one or further recipients; Built-in management of dial-up connections for modem users We designed the new download / upload algorithms, which operate further reliably at the unstable communications and allow to resume broken uploads / downloads; Command-line backup tool The software distribution kit contains command-line backup utility, which is intended for joint benefit with the backup scheduler or standard windows task schedulers for automatic data processing; Backup Scheduler The backup scheduler is a separate program, which permit you to schedule execution of the d_back command-line utility or any command-line task in automatic mode; Checking the results of data backup You can completely check the results of your backup jobs. The history of all start-ups, all diagnostic messages are registered in backup log file. In addition there is a possibility to notify user by e-mail about starting/ending, errors or warnings of each backup job; Easy data restoring process A whole content of an archive or any records from the chosen versions of backups can be restored into a target directory.