What is BOS
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BOS application can be downloaded or requested from its web site: http://www.bos.co.il.

Download and install the setup program and follow the instructions.

BOS uses hard drives as backup storage media.

The hard drive can be local on the machine, external (USB, Firewire), an attached disks array (external SCSI RAID) etc.

BOS will not use any network drive (mapped drive) for backup, but only a local logic drive.

BOS contains easy to use wizards to assist you defining backup sessions, scheduling, and restoring data from the backup storage.

The basic operation of setting backup:

1. Session - The definition of 'What' to backup

2. Schedule - 'When' to backup this session.

 

Once a session is defined and scheduled - It gets immediately to its queue of backup.

Add servers, desktops and portable computers to BOS backup.

Since neither agents nor client applications are required, all you need to know is what to backup from each machine, and to start mapping and scheduling it with BOS


 Concept & Method

BOS is a backup and restoring application installed on a dedicated PC constituting the backup server.

The BOS server is present in the network, and accesses every selected object to backup it according to a defined schedule.

 

The access and backup operation is performed in the simplest possible way, without any agents involved, special hardware required nor any  noticeable interruption to the system's functions.

BOS uses a hard drive as backup media. The backup drive should be a local hard drive or a partition, a removable disk (like a USB, firewire, flash disk etc.) or an external disks array.

BOS manages the backed up files and data under one single folder, named: 'backup'.

This folder contains the replicated network structure (machines), folders and files of each machine, each file's different versions,  and also the BOS (patent pending) tiny, fast, redundant and unique database.

 

 

BOS runs a 'Full' backup only once - the first time it backs up each machine.

After this first time during which BOS has replicated all the data - it only compares source vs. backup, and adds only new, changed and deleted files and folders to the backup storage..

When BOS encounters a new version of a file, this new file will be copied  to its natural allocation  (see diagram below), while the old version is moved to 'History' folder.

 

 

BOS keeps in backup all older versions of the files, according to the defined settings (1 to 256 days), which can be changed at any time.

The files versions are 1:1 copies of the original files - which means that the files are present on the hard disk and ready to be restored in a blink!

 

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