AISCL: The Windows PC and Server Backup utility program AISBackup.

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Aquarius I. S. Consultancy aims to supply low cost, high value, utility software to home and business users having features normally only found in software aimed at large corporate businesses. Indeed, corporate businesses may prefer to look here for a Windows PC backup and a Windows Server backup solution.

What our users say about AISBackup:

Arie wrote:

We are using AISBackup for about one year now to backup our own and hosted servers (near 50 in total). The servers are backed up each night to a NAS, which also acts as a FTP server to our hosted servers. During office hours this 2TB NAS is then synchronized by AISBackup to 1 out of 3 (daily rotating) portable USB drives which are then stored in an external location
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AISBackup: One product for Windows PC and Server backup and restore.

AISBackup provides a Windows PC backup and Windows Server backup and restore utility program of data and the Operating System to Internal and External Disk drives, Network drives, FTP Servers, CD, DVD, and all other media that looks like a disk to Windows. AISBackup is designed for all Windows operating systems from Windows 95, so whether you require a Windows XP backup, Windows Vista backup, Windows 7 backup or a Windows Server backup program or even a Windows 95, 98 and ME backup program you will find AISBackup a suitable solution.

AISBackup backs up Server application data, for example SQL Server backup and Microsoft Exchange backup without additional add-on software.

Feedback has told us that some Users are happy using AISBackup to backup and restore data from their Mac and Linux computers using network shares. However, AISBackup is not suitable for backing up or restoring the Operating System from Mac or Linux computers.

You are invited to download and try AISBackup for 30 days.

Download a trial of AISBackup

A 30 different day trial may be downloaded from the AISBackup download web page or directly from this download AISBackup link.

A 30 different day trial does not expire after 30 calendar days but instead after 30 different days of use.

Video Help

If you need help using AISBackup please see the video help page. The video help page includes the following topics:

Using AISBackup for the first time on a PC.
Restoring files and folders including restoring Windows XP files to Windows 7.
Cloning or copying Windows from one drive to another.
Disaster recovery using the AISBackup bootable restore CD or USB Flash drive.

Purchasing AISBackup

You may purchase AISBackup from our re-seller Register Now using all major credit and debit cards. U. K. Customers may pay by cheque in U. K. pounds. Please click here for more information.

Site License Options:

For multiple copies of AISBackup please see here.

Upgrade policy:

Once you have purchased AISBackup there is no further charge for upgrades. Just download the new version of AISBackup and install over the top of the existing version.

We also keep AISBackup backward compatible with your old backups, although backups made on the current version of AISBackup may not be compatible with older versions of the program - AISBackup will suggest that you download and install the latest version.

Offer for home Use:

If the software is for home use we will honour two licenses per household per purchase, so that you may use the software on your laptop or second home desktop computer. The additional key may be applied for at any time and is available to existing customers.

What's New

January 2012: Support for Windows 8 Developer Preview edition.
September 2011: External USB NTFS drives may be made bootable to facilitate AISBackup disaster recovery restores. This option works on Windows versions XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Serer 2008 and Server 2011.
September 2011: The AISBackup disaster recovery options now display a manu of jobs that existed on the PC when the AISBackup restore media was created. If a backup is made to an external drive that had been made bootable the job list is automatically updated. This update should make it very much easier to restore a PC in a disaster recovery situation.
March 2011: Fixed a bug in AISBackup and Windows Server 2008 64-bit editions that prevented backup of open exclusive files that are on more than one volume.
March 2011: Added a To do reminder to make the AISBackup bootable restore CD.

What's Old News? 10 years of milestones.

October 2000: The prerelease version of AISBackup could be used to make disaster recovery backups of Windows 98 and Windows 95; the same backup was used to restore Windows 98 back to October 2000 on a Windows 7 virtual PC to make this video about dual boot 98 & XP disaster recovery.
February 2001: AISBackup was released and the first sale was made a few days later.
October 2002: Integrated CD and DVD support added so there was not longer a requirement for a third party packet writing system.
May 2003: Disaster recovery support for Windows XP, however open exclusive file support was not available. Programs and services can be automatically stopped and restarted to reduce the affect of open and locked files such as the outlook e-mail file.
May 2004: Server 2000 and Server 2003 support, including disaster recovery, active directory, SQL Server etc. Open exclusive file support was still unavailable so SQL Server had to be closed prior to backup and then restarted - all automatically.
August 2004: Drag and drop restore option added so you know exactly where files and folders are restored. Possible to drag and drop folders containing many gigabytes to different drives - Windows programmers are likely to tell you that this is not possible.
October 2005: At last! Open exclusive file support for NTFS drives. Programs and services no longer need to be closed prior to backup.
July 2006: Support for Windows Vista added.
February 2008: Hard link file support added - a must as Windows Vista uses thousands of hard links. Simplistically a hard link is the same file on disk with two or more names (in different folders). Change one file and the 'other' changes because it is physically the same file.
May 2008: Support for 64-bit Windows, open exclusive file support was not supported on 64-bit Vista or 64-bit Windows Server 2008 without using AISFAM. Open exclusive file support on 64-bit XP and Server 2003 worked okay.
October 2008: It is now possible to make an AISBackup bootable restore CD for disaster recovery.
March 2009: Windows 7 support added.
May 2010: Open exclusive file backup support added for 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7.
February 2011: AISBackup is 10 years old and the current version of AISBackup is able to make restores from backups made in version of AISBackup that was released in 2001.

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