Firestreamer-RM is software that makes your storage media drives appear as a regular tape drive to other applications running on your computer. This allows you to use existing tape oriented backup software, such as the powerful Microsoft Backup Utility, to back up your data to a wide range of storage media, including DVD, HDD, Iomega REV?, flash memory and so on.
Why Firestreamer-RM?
Firestreamer-RM has the following advantages:
- Native backup of Windows file systems and components with the Microsoft Backup Utility (NTBackup). All the features of NTBackup are supported, including the volume shadow copy technology.
- Native backup of live Microsoft SQL Server databases with SQLBackup.
- Support for Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) Backup.
- Support for Microsoft Removable Storage.
- Full integration with Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR), also known as bare metal restore.
- Built-in strong data encryption.
- Built-in compression to store more data on the same media.
- Media spanning to spread large backups across multiple pieces of media with a single media drive.
- Drive spanning to spread large backups across multiple media writers to eliminate frequent manual media changes.
- Support for remote media drives via iSCSI.
- Fast direct writing to the backup media with no intermediate files.
- Huge advantages over packet writing (DLA) software.
- No more hassle with the drive letters. You can even use media drives with no drive letters assigned.
- Painless transition from tape backup to other media.
- Costs a fraction of the price of competing software.
Supported software
Firestreamer-RM supports the following software:
- Microsoft Backup Utility (NTBackup).
- Microsoft SQL Server (SQLBackup) 6.5, 7.0 and 2000.
- Microsoft Removable Storage.
- Windows Automated System Recovery (ASR).
- Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.
- Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 and 2003.
Supported drives
Firestreamer-RM supports most of the media drives, including:
- Internal and external drives.
- IDE/ATAPI/SATA.
- SCSI and iSCSI.
- USB.
- IEEE-1394/FireWire.
- Any other media drives recognized by Windows as DVD or removable disk drives.
Supported media
Firestreamer-RM supports the following media types:
- DVD-RAM.
- DVD+R.
- DVD+RW.
- DVD+R DL (Double Layer).
- Iomega REV?.
- HDD (hard disk drive).
- Flash memory (pen drives, CompactFlash?, SecureDigital? etc).
- Any other media recognized by Windows as DVD or removable disk media.
