Archiware P5 covers the A-B-C of data management, Archive, Backup, and Cloning. P5 is platform and storage agnostic, working with disk, tape, and cloud storage.
The four modules of the Archiware P5 platform secure data using different methods and restore them when required.
Unique broad support of platforms: macOS, Win, Linux, QNAP, Synology, FreeNAS/TrueNAS, NetGear and more.
P5 Backup and P5 Archive can use disk, flash, tape, and cloud storage as targets.
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Awarded the Quality Choice Award
Archiware P5 currently scores 79/100 in the Backup category. This is based on user satisfaction (50/100), press buzz (42/100), recent user trends (falling), and other relevant information on Archiware P5 gathered from around the web.
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Platform for data management, Backup and Archive in ONE solution
Platform agnostic running on macOS, Win, Linux, QNAP, Synology, FreeNAS/TrueNAS, NetGear, GB Labs and more
Storage agnostic supporting disk, flash, tape and cloud storage
Easy to setup and use: setup assistants & browser interface
Scales from single desktop workstation to PB size
Protects data in production and for long-term preservation
Single product or combination of P5 products for flexible solutions
Multiple integrations with MAM/PAM vendors like CatDV, Focalpoint Server, eMAM, KYNO, CANTEMO, Editshare, Projective, ScaleLogic and more
Free full-length training videos available to benefit of all ooptions
Automatic schedule based operation, manual operation or filter-based with individual criteria
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Many MAM vendors like eMAM, CANTEMO and CatDV are using P5 Archive as their storage backend to handle tape libraries, disk storage and cloud storage for long-term archiving.
The web interface can be used by multiple users at the same time.
P5 manages data in any stage oath workflow, Backup of production storage, replication or fail-over for data availability, long-term archive for compliance, re-use and monetization of assets.
Archiware offers support and full-length training videos for all products, numerous solutions with storage vendors and many other resources.
macOS, Windows, Linux, Synology and QNAP.
Businesses in industries like printing, pre-press, ad-agencies, media companies, postproduction, tv stations, sfx, design, architecture, manufacturing and many more.
There are numerous solutions with stooge vendors like Spectralogic, Tandberg, Overland, HPE, IBM, Quantum, Oracle, Lumaforge, Accusys, mLogic, G-Technology, DDP, Scale Logic, Synology, QNAP, Facilis, Promise, Qualstar, NEC, ATTO, Sonnet, MOG, Drobo and others.
The features tool set is extremely useful as let you program tasks with a rich set of parameters to adjust to the need of each project, save all of them enabling and disabling each one with a click.
Work with libraries is so powerful and simple at same time.
The MAM feature is so easy to work with, making easy to catalog, find and see the proxy files to decide what to recover.
Has also an amazing feature, that let me archive with one click from desktop.
I miss a step by step menu of some repetitive features when I not work with it from time to time. On the other side, has a tone of training videos on youtube to learn how to do almost everything.
I work mainly with P5 Backup and P5 Archive, and I love how works together, making my life easy.
What solves, for example manage media thru LTFS managing backups and recoveries in seconds to different destinations, LTO, disk or raid and even to the cloud, and viceversa.
The MAM is extremely useful when number of files grow and grow, and i need to find a file to recover ASAP, is excelent.
