Overview

What makes Ahsay™ the ultimate backup solution for SMBs


	With a long history since year 2000, Ahsay™ Backup Software is a proven solution chosen by 700,000 business end users worldwide. It has been localized to multi-languages which cover over 90% of worldwide popluation. Robust and yet competitively priced, Ahsay™ is the best value for money on-site and remote backup software available for small & medium businesses (SMBs).

Support low cost NAS devices

For SMBs that are interested in implementing backup solution in-house but with limited budget on I.T. related spending, purchasing regular servers together with backup solutions may be expensive to them.

Recently, network attached storage (NAS) devices are being widely used as storage servers because of their inexpensive prices compared to regular servers. Ahsay™ may be the only value-for-money enterprise class backup software which can be installed and run on NAS devices flawlessly. Ahsay™ empowers a NAS device to become an enterprise class backup appliance for SMBs with limited budgets. Moreover, this solution can replace traditional tape backup for better performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness.

To turn a NAS device into an enterprise class backup appliance, all you need is to install Ahsay™ Offsite Backup Server (AhsayOBS) and Ahsay™ Replication Server (AhsayRPS) on the device, and connect it to the company's internal network. Then, with Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager (AhsayOBM) or Ahsay™ A-Click Backup (AhsayACB) installed in all computers, file servers, email servers, and database servers, critical data can be backed up to this appliance automatically.

Moreover, with AhsayRPS, the backed up data stored in the NAS backup appliance can be automatically replicated to another NAS appliance located offsite to achieve added protection.

How to install AhsayOBS and AhsayRPS on a NAS

Continuous data protection

Ahsay's advanced continuous data protection (CDP) technology captures every version of the data a file that has been saved to your hard drive. With CDP, even if your hard drive crashes completely after you have worked for a full day without invoking backup manually yourself, the saved copy of your working files will still be intact on the backup server. It provides a highly dependable means of real-time, continuous data protection for servers, desktops, and laptops effortlessly and transparently, without any human intervention.

Support of load-balancing and Windows Active Directory

This new load-balancing feature is ideal for larger enterprises that have a sizable number of client computers to back up concurrently, as multiple Ahsay™ Offsite Backup Servers can be run at the same time to spread the loading of concurrent backup. This makes it possible for the backup system to achieve optimal resource utilization, throughput, and response time. Moreover, system reliability is greatly improved with added redundancy. The support of Windows Active Directory (or LDAP) allows user backup accounts to be created automatically and backup quota to be shared by a group of users.

Disaster recovery ready

The virtue of backup is to make copies of critical data so that these additional copies can be used to restore the original following a data-loss disaster.With Ahsay™ Backup Software, data will be copied, compressed, 256-bit encrypted and finally uploaded to a remote server located offsite through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). These backed up data are 100% restorable to their original formats, when needed, by simply clicking a few buttons.

In addition, Ahsay™ Backup Software provides another level of protection by allowing replication of the remote backup server(s) to another remote location. As a result, the security level is doubled.Simply put, Ahsay™ is truly a great tool that offers your customers immensely valuable assistance in carrying out the important function of data backup.

Backup 500GB in one night

Our seed load and in-file delta technologies enable backup of a large volume of data to be completed in a very short period of time. The seed load feature allows backup of the large volume of data to a local hard drive. With our proprietary in-file delta technology, the original file is required to be backed up once only, i.e. in the first backup job. Subsequently, only the changes within the file made since the previous backup are necessary to be backed up.

For example, for a file that is as large as 500GB, you can simply seed load the full backup to a removable local hard drive and then deliver the seed loaded data in the removable hard drive to the backup server. Since only the changes made within the 500GB file, normally less than 1%, i.e. 5GB, of the original file size, are required to be backed up again, this amount of data can be backed up easily to the server via the Internet or Intranet in one night. As a result, instead of having to back up 500GB everyday, you just need to back up 5GB everyday to keep the file up-to-date on the backup server.

All platforms and common databases supported

Ahsay™ supports all leading operating systems which can runJava2 Runtime Environment 1.4.2 or above, which are essentially all operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac, NetWare, NAS devices, etc. Besides, Ahsay™ comes with modules specially designed for backing up common database applications, including Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle and MySQL. This allows you to back up all these databases professionally as recommended by their respective software vendor easily without requiring you to know how it works technically behind the scenes. If the databases or application you are using in-house are not listed here, don’t worry. Our extensible and easily configurable command line tools enable you to add custom backup logics to basic backup operation through simple scripting.

Back up individual mails in Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular email servers used by businesses of any size. Ahsay™ Backup Software’s built-in Microsoft Exchange Backup Module allows you to back up all critical data within Microsoft Exchange Server, including individual email, calendar, and contact list, etc. This capability makes Ahsay™ an ideal backup tool for Microsoft Exchange Server.

Back up Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express

Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express are the two most popular email readers used by businesses and home users. Equipped with the capability for storing large amount of data efficiently, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express are now being used by many users to store large amount of important data in addition to being merely a communication tool. However, backing up data stored in these two email readers is a headache to most users, as few users know where to find the related files storing the personal information (e.g. “.pst”, “.dbx”) and address book (“.wab”) used by these email readers to back up. With Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager and Ahsay™ A-Click Backup, users can back up these data easily by simply checking a single checkbox (see below).

Moreover, with Ahsay™, backup and restore operations for large amount of data in these two email readers wouldn't be headache anymore because our aforementioned in-file delta technology has made backing up of data files (e.g. Microsoft Outlook's ".pst" files) with size up to 20GB an operation that can be completed within a few minutes even over slow Internet connection. Backing up of Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express has never been easier before without Ahsay™.

Multi-lingual

Ahsay™ Backup Software supports multi-languages, which cover over 90% of the world’s population. New languages are being added continuously. Supported languages include:

Limited cost, unlimited protection

Once Ahsay™ Backup Software Business Edition is deployed in your company, your invaluable data are protected from fire, vandalism, terrorist attacks, war and natural disasters, etc. While the cost of Ahsay™ is limited, the value of critical business data it protects and the potential benefits you can derive from these data are enormous and unlimited.

Easy backup, restore and maintenance

Automatic backup

After the initial setup of Ahsay™’s client-side backup application, be it Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager or Ahsay™ A-Click Backup, backup will be performed automatically every day without requiring human effort. Restore operation can be done in just a few clicks.

User friendly interface

The software interface of Ahsay™ Backup Software is carefully designed to allow users and administrators to handle backup/restore operations and complete administration tasks easily within a few clicks.

Centralized web management console

Ahsay™ allows system administrators to configure backup sets and bandwidth throttling, enable and disable add-on modules for individual users, set up users' quota, restore backed up files, manage banner advertisement, access data on system activities and backup errors in an intuitive web management console.

Comprehensive Online / Email Reports

Ahsay™ proactively informs system administrators of any error likely to occur in the backup server and provides a complete log file for trouble shooting, thereby minimizing the need for emergency technical support and maintenance, as well as the amount of administrative work.

Minimal effort required

Ahsay™ automatically performs all necessary housekeeping tasks such as obsolete data file removal, data integrity checking, user storage information rebuilding, inactive trial user removal, and log files cleanup.

Auto-upgrade of client software

With the Auto Upgrade feature enabled, upgrade of client-side applications to new versions can be done automatically.

API integration

Integration of other applications with Ahsay™ is accomplished through the use of its APIs. It is an absolute breeze.

Serve users with different needs

We have designed two major client applications to satisfy the backup needs of different users. Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager is a robust, multi-platform client software for backing up servers, while Ahsay™ A-Click Backup is a light version of Ahsay™ Online Backup Manager featuring simple settings and clean user interface for backing up desktops and laptops of individual users or businesses.