What does it do?

Backup your data in regular file format to a local or network drive.  Use CopyCube to supplement your existing tape backup system with an on-site backup copy of your data (on hard disk).

• Point CopyCube to a critical data folder on your server or system and tell it where to place a backup copy of the folder.  Schedule it to run weekly / nightly or whenever.
• Data recovery is as simple as going to the backup folder and finding the file you need.
• CopyCube then uses Robocopy to efficiently copy this folder to a FULL backup folder and to as many separate INCREMENTAL backup folders as you desire.
• Progress reports arrive via e-mail so you don't have to monitor the backups.

Why supplement your tape backup system?

1) Time to recover for small restores is high . With files in a backup folder, recovery is easy and quick.
2) Tape backups usually occur at night. You can schedule CopyCube incrementals to run during the day so that multiple changed versions of active files are available.
3) Manual intervention is required : tapes need to be changed. With a hard disk backup, the process is fully automated.
4) Cost per megabyte for the new batch of massive IDE (>120gig) hard drives beats tape prices.

Options

To protect against accidental deletion, move files to a temporary holding area before deleting them. This preserves the original folder structure. In addition, you can have diskjanitor send activity logs via e-mail and/or log to disk.

Scheduling

This will schedule CopyCube to run in the background on your system.
WARNING: any settings changes made to CopyCube will affect the scheduled operation too.

You must supply an account with permission to copy the files.
Remember if the account password changes the schedule will fail.

Normally The built-in 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM' account has no password and is a local admin.