What is it?: Like Backup, Archive takes a copy of your important files – usually at a fixed interval, say every day. However, with Archive can recover your files to their state to almost any time in the past.

Insures against: Storage failure and both accidental and deliberate deletion or modification of files.

Advantages: You can clear your working storage of old projects know you can recover them at any time.

Disadvantages: Recovery generally takes longer than with backup. Requires main server to be running.

PresSTORE Archive is a solution for archiving media data. Archiving data may be required for different reasons, e.g. to build a digital media - or asset - archive or to reduce the load on primary storage by archiving production data.

Common to both of these tasks is the requirement for comprehensive and dedicated search features to facilitate the fast location of data. PresSTORE allows users to easily and efficiently tag and describe data, both before and after archiving. Depending on the volume of data, performance and security requirements, tape or optical media can be employed.

Powerful Features

High Reliability
PresSTORE Archive primary task is to maintain maximum data availability. Henceforth, PresSTORE incorporates many functions to prevent, correct and alleviate possible tape or driver errors, i.e. keeping track of all the tape errors which occurred during its life cycle. Data can be cloned to a second tape to overcome a possible failure of the primary tape.

Comprehensive Data Description
PresSTORE allows users to dynamically and freely define meta-fields to tag and describe this data.This enables users to describe every file individually and to use this information later when searching. The meta-fields are also accessible via the API to interface middleware data management, archival and retrieval systems.

Fast Extensive Full-Text Search
Extensive search capabilities enable users to quickly and easily locate the data they are looking for. The multiple indexed database guarantees constant search speeds even for very large volumes of data.

High Degree Of Automation
PresSTORE Archive monitors folders. It archives, indexes and can also remove archived files fully automatically. Extensive filtering can also be applied to select or exclude certain files based on name, path, size or date.

Cross-Platform Support
Regardless which file server, hardware, platform or operating system you employ, PresSTORE transfers data between them in a neutral format and maintains platform-specific information such as the special characters in file names, attributes and file parts (forks and/or streams). This enables users to backup and restore data to any platform within your company's network and allows the business to remain flexible in the choice of platform in the future.

Modular & Scalable
PresSTORE's modular design allows users to optimise a company's data security requirements as the storage needs of a business grows. PresSTORE does not impose any internal limits on this growth. This enables users to, for example, multiply the data throughput of backup by adding further drives or to backup additional servers on their network in parallel on demand. With PresSTORE's flexible modular system, PresSTORE Backup and Synchronise modules can be added as required.

Excellent Price/Performance Ratio
With PresSTORE's users simply choose the modules that are needed to match the required functionality. and the modules can be configured to match their current needs. In this way PresSTORE offers an excellent opportunity to utilise a professional data management tool and enables users to expand their system as requirements dictate.