Introduction & licensing

Acronyms

The following table lists the different acronyms used in this manual.

Introduction

GS RichCopy 360 is designed to work on Windows servers and workstations and is perceived as the industry leader for file and folder replication and synchronization in WAN and LAN environments. GS RichCopy 360 is available in two different versions, Standard and Enterprise. The Enterprise version includes all options offered in the Standard version and includes advanced options such as Bulk Job Create/Import, Block Level Replication, Real-time Replication, Compression, Encryption, and Replication over a TCP port. The latter option is recommended for replication across the internet, locked down firewall environments and many more options covered later in this manual.

GS RichCopy 360 Enterprise will work over VPN connections and across the internet. This current version has taken over 12 years to develop and is the ideal solution for high-volume server and workstation transactions over networks using LAN, WAN, and VPN connections and across the internet.

Benefits

The following are the benefits of GS RichCopy 360.

Easy to Understand and Use

Our patent-pending design is slick and easy, providing the best administration experience possible while using intelligent and sophisticated logic, and advanced methods under the hood.

GS RichCopy 360 is designed to minimize work by staff. The GS RichCopy 360 interface provides what you need and where you expect to find it. It offers advanced capabilities with minimal overhead configuration.

Robust Performance

GS RichCopy 360 offers advanced multi-threading technology utilizing 100% parallel computing techniques. It also offers a proprietary patent-pending technology that provides the most robust and powerful performance possible.

Affordable Value

GS RichCopy 360 provides functionality that is comparable, if not superior, to most other solutions. What is more, the total cost of ownership of GS RichCopy 360 is less than the initial cost of most other solutions. GS RichCopy 360 comes with free support from our highly trained support staff.

Key Features

GS RichCopy 360 is a job-based software and can be configured for multiple jobs per server or workstation to operate with the following features.

GS RichCopy 360 Enterprise

• Operates real-time.

• Provides byte-level file replication to save on bandwidth and file copy time.

• Uses compressed data during transmission, making transfers much more efficient and robust.

• Provides WebDAV support.

• Provides the option to replicate data across the internet with data being highly encrypted during transmission.

GS RichCopy 360 Enterprise and GS RichCopy 360 Standard

• Provides the capability to schedule jobs (e.g. Friday 11:00 pm) and create repeat intervals (e.g. every 30 Minutes, 1 hour, daily, weekly).

• On demand.

• Provides command line support. Jobs can be created, triggered, or stopped through the command line either locally from the same machine or passed remotely from another machine. This is useful to centrally manage all clients.

• Runs as a windows service or as a currently logged in user.

• Connect as a specific user to source/target machines, which can be useful in workgroup and multi-domain/forest environments.

• Provides long path and file name support.

• Sync Poisoning provides a safety net where data on the Remote Transfer Agent (RTA) server is backed up in the event it is about to get overwritten or deleted by its source job.

• Provides advanced multi-threading technology utilizing 100% parallel computing techniques. It also offers a proprietary patent-pending technology that provides the most robust and powerful performance possible.

• Copies open and locked files due to its full integration with Volume Shadow Service (VSS).

• Provides the option to replicate NTFS ACL security permissions, file and folder attributes, and date time stamps.

• Provides advanced file and folder inclusion and exclusion settings by pattern in name, full name, or explicit.

• Provides the capability for administrative permission override. If GS RichCopy 360 is attempting to copy from or to a folder where it does not have NTFS permissions, it can use the administrative override so it can get the needed access automatically. This is possible for as long as the source or destination is on a Windows operating system and the user account used has administrative privileges.

Note: There are no settings to turn this feature ON. It automatically works as soon as an NTFS permission is preventing reading access. However, this feature does not work if the destination or source where the NTFS permission is required is a NAS device because override functionality is only supported on Windows systems.

• Sends email notifications upon failure and success using the local SMTP server or any other email provider such as Gmail.

• Environment variable is fully supported throughout most fields in the application.

• Provides the option to have GS RichCopy 360 run as a normal user account where administrative access is not granted. By default, it is required to be an administrator on the machine where GS RichCopy 360 is installed. However, a user can turn off that requirement within the configuration screen so that normal users can operate and manage jobs on GS RichCopy 360.

Note: Some functionalities may not be available unless the jobs are configured to run as a service. Each job has its own unique configuration (Definition of Source and Target Folder) and its own settings.

Other Features

• Useful in copying, moving, or mirroring directories along with their files and subfolders, ACLs, and attributes from one location to another (same server or different server).

• Provides the option to have the source (folder you are copying from) to be mirrored exactly onto the target or destination (folder you are copying to).

• Provides the option to replicate only the directory tree (structure) without its files. This feature will basically copy only the exact directory structure of the source.

Comparison of Standard and Enterprise Versions

The following table displays the features of the Enterprise and the Standard versions of GS RichCopy 360 for comparison purposes.

Licensing

The GS RichCopy 360 follows a perpetual licensing model. A perpetual licensing model allows the customer to install and use the software indefinitely. GS RichCopy 360 is licensed per machine, requiring that the user purchases a license for each client computer and device on which the software is installed. Other licensing options are available such as volume, site, and enterprise licensing.

If 25 or more licenses are purchased, they can be upgraded to portable licenses. In that case, having 25 installed machine licenses, it is permitted to move one installation from one machine to another, then the administrator can unregister it from the old machine and move it to the new machine.

For this feature, the user must buy 25 Enterprise licenses or 40 Standard licenses.

Note: Licensing models such as volume, site, and enterprise can be discussed and arranged with sales prior to purchasing GS RichCopy 360.