 | Row Level Recovery – LiteSpeed allows you to restore data down to the row level by incorporating SELECT statements into the recovery process, returning only the data you need from your backup file. | | Configurable to your environment – As well as configuring the levels of compression and encryption, LiteSpeed allows you to set the CPU throttle, processor affinity for each server backup, and how many threads are utilized during the backup process, allowing you to configure the LiteSpeed engine to gain optimal performance. |
| Attached File Backup – LiteSpeed offers the Attached File option allowing you to attach documentation to your database archive. This documentation will be restored along with the database as part of the recovery operation. LiteSpeed is the only SQL backup solution to offer this feature. | | LiteSpeed Maintenance Plans - Gives the user the ability to craft maintenance plans with all the options of the native tool plus the power of LiteSpeed regardless of how simple or complex the plans are. |
| Database Categorization - Categorize databases any way you want (PROD, DEV, TEST) as well as assign multiple categories (Location, Application) and then choose your desired view. | | Remote Deploy – LiteSpeed offers you the ability to use separate Windows and database administrative accounts when deploying remotely across your environment. |
| Centralized Reporting – LiteSpeed provides you with a comprehensive reporting engine allowing you to configure and produce reports in a number of different formats for presentation to management. | | Guided Restore – LiteSpeed will ensure that additional backup files are automatically added to the restore when a transaction log or differential backup is selected using the restore wizard. |
| Integrated Log Shipping – LiteSpeed will improve the performance of log shipping by reducing the size of the logs, therefore increasing the speed of the log transfer. LiteSpeed contains its own advanced log shipping functionality for Standard SQL Server users. | | Log Shipping Management - Allows you to easily configure and monitor both LiteSpeed and native log shipping plans. The ability to visually monitor log shipping includes all relevant latency alerting and allows you to easily add and remove subscribers on demand. |
| Backup Mirroring - LiteSpeed allows you to write a single backup to multiple locations simultaneously, eliminating the need to make copies individually. | | Log Reader - Allows users to recover data stored in transaction log files by rolling back any operation and reconstructing transactions. |
| Backup to disk, tape or Tivoli – LiteSpeed allows you to backup directly to disk, tape or TSM. | | Cluster Aware – LiteSpeed fully supports clustered environments. |
| File Checksum – Verify the backup integrity during a restore from tape to disk. | | Microsoft Certified – LiteSpeed is a Microsoft certified tool and is used by Microsoft internally (read the case study). |
| | | |