Design Goals
FlashReliance is designed not only as data backup software, it has also been engineered to address shortcomings of similar products and to work seamlessly and pleasantly in the user's computing environment. FlashReliance is also designed to be the perfect backup software for the ever-popular portable storage devices.

With virtually all backup software and most software products, their usages are neglected over time on a user's computer due to various reasons. Our design team has addressed these common problems by making our software integrate seamlessly with the user's machine.

FlashReliance uses the concept of profile to identify the files that are intended to be backup. Once the desired profile is set, a backup could be launched either manually or automatically according to preset schedules or workflow options; so a user could start a backup with very little effort and, if so prefer, without a single mouse click - a truly "set and forget" capability.

Large Feature Set
FlashReliance also provides powerful compression and 128-bit encryption functions. The compression is so finely crafted that choosing such option will actually speed up a typical backup. The standard 128-bit encryption is considered one of the strongest encryption even by today's standard. With strong encryption, backups are protected with added security. We have also included a suite of comprehensive scheduling options, which will satisfy the most demanding IT professionals. Although we have packed together a rich set of features normally found only in enterprise backup software, we still manage to package everything into one user-friendly program that you will find pleasant and easy to use.


List of the major features:

Backup Types
FlashRelinace supports both full backup and incremental backup. While full backup saves every files specified by the user, incremental backup only saves the files that have been updated since the previous backup. Storage devices with lower capacity such as portable devices will benefit most from incremental backup.



Backup By Directory
In addition to saving individual files in a backup, "backup by directory" allows users to specify locations of the intended backup files without explicitly identifying every single file (including files yet to be created). Only at the time of backup, the actual file list is assembled for the purpose of copying and saving existing files under the designated directories to the backup storage.

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Backup Profile
FlashReliance uses a file called "profile" to conveniently record files that a user wants to backup. Simple and easy-to-use user interface allows user to create backup file list and to select the desired options. Once the profile is created, FlashReliance will perform backup and related tasks accordingly without further intervention from user.



Scheduling
A backup could be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, by day of the week, by date of the month, a specified date or any other periodic time intervals. Multiple schedules could be defined in the same profile and different combination of scheduling time and other options are supported.

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Workflow Scheduling
Unlike the date/time dependent scheduling above, workflow scheduling relates the state of the user's computing environment to a backup and backup options. For example, a user could instruct FlashReliance to run backup when the PC shuts down. Other examples are "hibernate after backup", "run another application after backup", etc.



Compression
The compression feature compresses backup files before saving to backup storage resulting in saving valuable storage space. At restore, compressed files are automatically decompressed to their original content. Due to the compression efficiency, which greatly reduces backup file size, a typical computer will take less time to backup than a backup without the compression option enabled.

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Encryption
Encrypted backup files provide data security on the backup data. FlashReliance comes standard with 128-bit encryption capability and offers several levels of key management options giving users the most flexibility in managing encryption key and backups.

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Filtering
Identifying files to backup from a large file system could be a daunting task. FlashReliance provides a powerful filtering function to select and screen for desired files. As files are being identified using the filtering function, they could be marked as "keep" and the user could continue to filter further files with the existing selection or start anew by selecting and filtering files from another part of the file system.

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Unobstructed Backup
FlashReliance is defaulted to run unobstructedly even if the user is actively using other applications. There are multiple settings that the user could choose which specify how much computing resources should be allocated to FlashReliance during a backup.

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Backup Record Management
Options are provided to automatically manage the number of previous backups to keep, size of backups and storage space usage. As new backups are created, older backups could be purged safely and automatically. When properly set, FlashReliance could use this feature to automatically maintain storage space and to keep certain number of the latest backups. This is another example of user-friendly feature that requires almost no user intervention once the initial set up is done.

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Recovery
In the event that the primary drive of the user's PC suffers a severe data loss, the Recovery feature allows the user to recover backup files from backup devices even if the data loss had also damaged the FlashReliance installation.

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Support Portable Devices
FlashReliance recognizes in real time when portable storage devices are connected to and disconnected from the user's system. With the capability of working with backups in storage devices that are constantly shuffled off-line and put on-line as different drive designations, FlashReliance is the preferred backup utility of the ever increasing popular portable devices like flash drives and USB enabled devices.



Support Double Bytes
FlashReliance supports all Windows versions starting and including Windows 98. It also supports double bytes on all these Windows versions.




Extensive Help
To compliment the easy-to-use objective of the product, several help systems are provided. FlashReliance's status bar displays user interface description as well as task relevant information. Many of the window panels also have built-in help to provide usage instructions. And at any time, pressing the F1 key will launch the FlashReliance Help system with the proper context shown on any FlashReliance windows.

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