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Network Explorer

Network Explorer is the main administration application for LANBak. The program allows a network administrator to view the complete backup space distributed across any number of LANBak backup servers. The administrator can also modify global or individual policy settings for both clients and servers on the network from a single admin workstation.

Client computers can be organized into group folders allowing hierarchical management of nodes on the network.

LANBak 3.2 contains a full reporting system capable of generating on-the-fly reports at any level on the network tree.

Desktop Preview & Restore

Standard network users can access files in the backup space from their own desktop without administrator intervention. This allows IT departments to be free from expensive and time-consuming user-requests to restore lost or previous-version files from tape.

To preview or restore previous version files from their desktop, the user simply right-clicks a file or folder from within Windows Explorer and selects 'Network Backup Versions...' from the popup context menu. A dialog is then shown of all files available, ready for instant preview and restore.

Users can also preview & restore data on a mapped network drive (the remote machine must also be running LANBak Client).

Security is maintained at both local and remote levels by native NT file permissions checking at every point within the LANBak system. This ensures users can only preview and restore files they have permission to access.

On-Demand Backup

If enabled, users can send files and folders to the backup system 'on-demand' using the familiar Windows Explorer 'Send To' menu option.

Network administrators can configure each LANBak Server to keep on-demand backups only for a certain period, allowing controlled management of backup sets created 'on-the-fly'.