Rack-Soft says that 4PSA Total Backup 2 is a Parallels Plesk add-on that handles the entire backup lifecycle from backup to storage, alerting and restore. The software is also able to encrypt backups, says Rack-Soft, an important feature targeted to customers that save backups on third-party infrastructures.

According to the latest press release, enhancements introduced by the new version include improved backup cycle storage that allows keeping locally and remotely multiple backup cycles, selective restore, the possibility to cap archives storage bandwidth and compressed file transfers.

"Hosting providers have quite special backup and disaster recovery requirements," says Bogdan Carstiou, general manager of Rack-Soft. "The backup operation should not affect production services, should optimize disk space, minimize bandwidth consumption and guarantee information security. 4PSA Total Backup has been available for almost five years, saving thousands of Plesk server administrators from disaster. In the new version we simply incorporate the experience accumulated during these years."

Rack-Soft says licensing prices start from $69 and include 12 months of maintenance and technical support.

Rack-Soft says it is a "specialized developer and integrator of server and data center software" and delivers solutions that help service providers and enterprises control their infrastructure, automate processes and improve communications.

In January, Rack-Soft launched version 1.6 of its 4PSA VoipNow software.