Archiware has released PresSTORE 4, a major update to its suite of backup, archive, and synchronization software. The new software has a long list of features, including:

• An entirely new interface, reorganizing every menu for a much more intuitive experience
• An iPhone app for monitoring your PresSTORE server and receiving alerts (storage full, etc.)
• Desktop Notification Service to bring more information to users and administrators
• Global log searching
• A common schedule for Synchronize, Backup and Archive

In addition, individual modules have also been improved. Synchronize now has a many-to-one mode, a one-click snapshot function, and includes full support for Xsan FS Events. The Backup module includes support for progressive backups (to consolidate multiple incrementals into a new full), tape redundancy, and point-in-time snapshots. Backup2Go can throttle by network or CPU load and perform end-to-end encryption. Finally, Archive now uses an plugin architecture for external preview generators, so data of almost any type can be previewed.

Continue reading for an FAQ about upgrades...

The XRAID has a pretty GUI interface, but it's not much good for any more than the most basic setups. Thankfully, Active Storage provides a Command Line Interface that's much more powerful.

Unlike most hardware, this one isn't available from SSH or Telnet. Instead, you must download an application from their support web site. I couldn't find a permalink, but here is the current version.

The download unzips directly into the executable. No compiling, no installing. (This implies it's a Mac-only program!) You can leave the program in your Downloads folder, or move it to a more traditional location, such as /usr/local/bin.

Read more below to learn some commands!

Active Storage has posted an FAQ on Innerpool, their metadata-LUN-on-a-PCI-card product. You can find it in our forums.

For too many years, Macintosh enterprise backup software has been either far too weak or far too complicated. Today, as attentive Xsanity readers have discovered, there is a simple but serious alternative: Archiware PresSTORE.

Join us in New York City at Tekserve from 1 to 4 PM on Wednesday, April 28th, for a free introduction from Archiware's Ibrahim Tannir on the PresSTORE line of enterprise backup software. Registration is required.

And for those of you already using PresSTORE, we are hosting a free, day-long technical training from 9 AM to 5 PM on Tuesday, April 27. This event is open to all registered PresSTORE owners. Again, registration is required.

PROMISE is proud to announce the arrival of the 32TB VTrak chassis available immediately. The PROMISE VTrak can be purchased with the latest 2TB enterprise-class SATA drives in both the VTrak E-Class and expansion chassis. For more info come visit us at www.promise.com/apple/vtrak or check out the datasheet. If you're at NAB, come visit our booth at SL7923.

Archiware has released PresSTORE 3.2, a major upgrade of their suite of their cross-platform backup, synchronization, and archiving software. The upgrade is free to all 3.x users.

PresSTORE is split into four interconnected modules: Backup, Synchronize, Archive and Backup2Go (for intermittently connected systems like laptops and user desktops). There are improvements to each in this release, but Backup2Go gets the lion's share.

With this release, Backup2Go adds snapshots and de-duplication to HFS+. It does this by borrowing a Time Machine technology: hard links to folders. As far as I know, Backup2Go is the only enterprise-level backup system to take advantage of this technology.

Other improvements include:

• Snow Leopard compatibility
• Bootable OS X restores from Backup2Go
• Centralized workstation management in Backup2Go (my sysadmin ♥ this feature)
• Create offset previews in Archive to remove slates and trailers
• Windows QuickTime support in Archive
• A new graphic display of pool and volume capacities
• Simplified tape management

[Disclaimer:] My employer is one of the few PresSTORE resellers in the U.S. (and we'd love to sell it to you!)