The new features of this backup software pay special attention to common files and client settings to simplify the task of backing up client PCs. Perhaps the best new feature in CNB is Save Once. This setting is enabled during the installation and lets you keep only a single copy of a common file or directory on the storage server. For example, if you send a Word document to 25 users, CNB will back up that file only once and only monitor for changes to the subsequent copies. This saves on needed disk resources and backup times.
Competitors provide similar capabilities.
PTR lets the CNB agent residing on the client PC take a snapshot of all of the PCs settings. If the client PC's hard disk crashes, you can simply reinstall the OS, start the network connection, and CNB will restore the settings. This feature also works well for application problems. For example, we deleted several files that Microsoft Office needed in order to launch. When we tried to launch the application, the CNB automatically found the missing files and restored them.