BackupChain
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BackupChain, developed by FastNeuron Inc, is a backup software and FTP server for Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 operating systems optimized to create backup copies of large files using in-file delta compression. The new technology in BackupChain saves storage space as well as bandwidth and thereby allows server operators to back up virtual machines, databases, and other large files to a remote location or simply to local storage areas. Unlike other available technologies, BackupChain’s delta compression algorithms are utilized to create incremental and differential file versions of virtual machines without scanning the previous file versions.
BackupChain supports standard FTP and FTPS
FTPS
FTPS is an extension to the commonly used File Transfer Protocol that adds support for the Transport Layer Security and the Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocols....

 protocols and military-strength encryption, such as Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard
Advanced Encryption Standard is a specification for the encryption of electronic data. It has been adopted by the U.S. government and is now used worldwide. It supersedes DES...

 (AES-256), and was specifically designed for Microsoft Server platforms, including the new Microsoft Hyper-V
Hyper-V
Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and the finalized version was released on June 26,...

Server.
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