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Backup Manager
Overview

Ensuring Data Is Archived And Available

The information your frontline workers gather and use in the course of serving customers is an important corporate asset. Ensuring that this data is backed up and rapidly recoverable is both a high priority and a challenge. Your mobile users are often too busy serving clients to remember to back up their data; even if they did remember, most are intermittently connected, often over low-bandwidth connections. Even if they wanted to back up data it would be a time-consuming and inefficient process. Instead, a centralized and automated process is the way to ensure that important information is always available.

Afaria Backup Manager makes the data archiving and recovery process simple for individual users and effective for the larger organization. It backs up frontline workers' critical business data and documents, ensuring their availability to both the frontline employee and the company, even if the device is lost, damaged or stolen. Archived data, applications and hardware configurations can be quickly restored to any system or device that has been lost or damaged. Backup Manager:

  • Archives data, applications and hardware configurations to a centralized location
  • Backs up information on a scheduled basis without user involvement
  • Efficiently retrieves data using techniques that minimize connection times
  • Remotely downloads lost data, applications and settings to replacement devices

Flexibility and Control

Backup Manager allows IT to centrally manage data backup in the background, with no user intervention. Bandwidth controls make it feasible to back up large amounts of data even over low bandwidth connections, because they reduce the volume of data sent, the bandwidth demands, and the connection time. Backup Manager is respectful of other applications, "giving way" when activity levels necessitate it. If a backup is interrupted during a data transmission, Backup Manager picks up where it left off during the next communication session. This avoids redundant data transmission, reducing connection time as well as user frustration.

Backup Manager gives you multiple ways to manage the backup and restore process. You can change the default location for backups, for example, and set space-usage thresholds that activate alerts when usage at the backup location exceeds a specified percentage. When available disk space is consumed, message log entries and alerts are generated. You can also set a specified number of days after which all backed up items will be deleted. Backup Manager lets you restore files selectively or in full.

Using Backup Manager, you can back up and restore critical data from specified files, folders, and applications to a managed folder structure on the corporate network. For handheld client devices, applications and data missed by PIM sync processes are backed up and can be restored when these devices connect to the server.

Backup Manager ensures that your critical frontline information will be there when it's needed, without worrying about getting users to back up their data.