Genie Backup Manager Home Edition 7.0 Online Manual
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Getting Started
- Product Overview
- Installation
- Genie Backup Manager
- Open File Backup Agent
- Upgrade to the New Version of Genie Backup Manager
- GBM Basics
- Using GBM
- The Main Window
- Backup Devices
- Data
- Personal Data and Settings (My Profile)
- Files and Folders
- Programs and Program Settings
- Backup Settings
- Backup Types
- Security in GBM
Understanding Backup Sets and Purging- Understanding Archive Bit and Backup Types
- Adding a Timestamp to the Backup File
- Rotating Backup Types
- Compression
- Power Management Options
- How to: Create Backup Shortcuts on the Desktop
- How to: Create Self-Restorable Backups
Command Line Parameters
- Scheduler
- Run Backup
- Backup Progress
- Data Verification
- Managing Open Files
- Restore
- Disaster Recovery
- Logs and Reports
- The Backup Log
- The Restore Log
- Data Verification Log
- Advanced Logging
- Notifications and Alerts
- Scripting
- Troubleshooting
- Technical Support
- Ordering Genie Backup Manager
Compression in Genie Backup Manager
Genie Backup Manager uses non-proprietary ZIP64 compatible compression to reduce backed up data size and save space, supporting up to 264 -1 files within a zip archive as well as files that have a size greater than 4GB, for a zip file size that can reach up to about 18 million terabytes (more precisely, 2^64-1 bytes).
The Genie Backup Manager compression engine offers fast performance and low memory usage. Speed improvements reach 25%-75% in certain contexts. It also provides 15 to 20% better compression than other formats on many popular file types, especially XML data.
Users can choose between 9 levels of compression starting from no-compression, which packs the entire backup neatly within a single file, but without the overhead to the backup speed added by compression.
Backup without Compression
Choosing to backup data without compression causes GBM to copy the data to a single folder on the storage device while preserving the original folder tree structure, this makes data more accessible and less susceptible to corruption.