When a customer decides to choose an effective backup software, there are a set of criteria that should be looked into before selecting the software. This blog describes the basic essentials that a customer should look for in a backup software.
Device Compatibility:
How many hardware devices does the software work with? As a rule, software support for new devices is less common than for established ones. Providing support updates for new devices on the market as soon as they hit the market will be is an added advantage. Most software will not provide such support; this will achieve distinct recognition of our product.
OS Platform:
Operating System compatibility is a requirement. Checking if the backup agent supports most features of an operating system is an important requirement but also compatibility to an OS in the market is important.
Backup Software Type:
A basic backup software should provide support of full, selective and incremental backup types. An added advantage for better support is providing filters with search strings and patterns (for files and directories).
Disaster Recovery:
The backup software should have the capability of creating a disk with a special recovery program that runs on BIOS which lets you restore your system even without reinstalling the entire OS. This will save a lot of time as well as help in resuming your process from where it left off.
Compression:
Compression is a very important requirement, as backups are additional copies of your existing data and thus an expectation of little space occupancy will eventually rise on the customer side. In this case, the backup software should support an effective compression technology that saves space of more than half of the original space.
Security:
Security is yet another basic requirement for backups. As we all know, compression of a backup data will always be expected to be provided with an effective encryption method. In addition to the encryption method like AES-256 (which is the most secure encryption existing in the industry so far), a private key encryption (password) which lets a user choose the password will also be helpful in gaining their trust factor.
Backup Configuration Profiles:
A predefined set of backup configuration profiles is expected where the profiles are designed based on customers expectations. A customer will likely configure different backup types for various situations for each profile. The profiles should be made by analyzing previous profiles and also a basic configuration which lets users alter values that make it suitable for various requirements.
Spanning:
Support for backups of large size and for backups that grows larger in size over a period of time is also an expected basic requirement. Such backups will be provided by large number of smaller pieces of backup data and this support is also expected for backups over a long time period.
Apart from the above listed requirements, another important factor to look into is cost. A customer knows how backups are essential in their business. They should also look for a cost effective backup software that fulfills the above requirements as well as their expectations.
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