From Archiware, P5 Software Suite 5.3 and P5 Archive App, One-Click Archiving Tool

Archiware GmbH presents a product in the data management field, the P5 Archive App.

P5 Archive App

This add-on to P5 Archive simplifies the archiving process by allowing users to archive and restore files directly from finder via the right-click context menu, without the need to open P5 Archive itself.

Final Cut Pro X projects are archived and restored including all media used in the project.

Archived files and folders are represented by a link file which displays metadata and previews on doubleclick metadata can be added during archiving. All jobs are listed in a monitoring window for verification.

The P5 Archive App will be available for Mac OS X initially, with more platforms to follow in the future.

Until May 31st, 2016, an introductory offer with a 50% discount is available for a package including the P5 Archive App and 5 Workstation licenses.

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Simultaneously, the company releases version 5.3 of their core product, the P5 Suite. Aside from supporting the P5 Archive App, this version has two major features:

• Snapshot support in P5 Synchronize
  In Version 5.3, the synchronize module supports a functionality of advanced file systems such as ZFS or BtrFS, which is creating a snapshot of the status quo of data. The advantage of this approach is that very little resources are used. Snapshots can be created instantly and the required storage space matches the amount of data that has changed. This functionality enables the user to keep and provide multiple cycles of synchronized data.

• LTO-7 capability
  P5 version 5.3 has been tested successfully with LTO-7 drives and libraries. Just like with LTO-6, astonishing performance results were achieved: in a test setup, the average throughput was 223MB/s or 783GB/hour, running a full backup with tape cloning.