NetVault: Backup Packages NV WorkGroup NV DataCenter NV Enterprise

NV Clients (any OS) 5 10 25

Heterogeneous Client Support Yes Yes Yes

Tape Drives 4 20 Unlimited

Tape Library Slots Up to 60 Up to 350 Unlimited

VTL Capacity 100G/12 Devices 250G/24 Devices 500G/Unlimited Devices

Shared VTL Optional Optional Optional

Maximum VTL Capacity Drives 3TB/12 Devices 10TB/24 Devices Unlimited

Enhanced Reporting Included Included Included

SmartClient License Optional Optional Optional

NetVault: Report Manager Optional Included Included

• Sufficient disk space to hold the • Supported NetVault Server/Client OS NetVault: Backup software and the AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX (Itanium2), HP-UX (PA-RISC), (IA32), NetVault: Backup database index. Linux (Itanium2), Linux (PowerPC 64), Linux (x86 64), Mac OS X, MP-RAS, OpenServer, Solaris (Intel), Solaris (SPARC), Windows • 128MB RAM or more. 2000/Server 2003/Storage Server 2003/XP Professional • TCP/IP network. • Supported Online Backup Modules (APMs) • Monitor display capable of 800x600 DB2, Informix, Lotus Notes/Domino, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft or better resolution and 256 or SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Online/RMAN, PostgreSQL, SAP, Sybase, more colors. Teradata

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APPLICATION SERVER GUI DEVICE PLUGIN MODULE MODULE MODULE MODULE NetVault: Backup NAS NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Disk to Disk Backup . Server Backup Backup Backup Virtual Tape Library . . . . SmartClient Client SmartClient . . . . NETVAULT CORE MODULE GUI Module . . Application Plugin Module . . SAN Device Module . . Dynamic Shared Drive Module CLIENT OR SERVER OPERATING SYSTEMS Server Module Client Module Shared Core Module Tape Device Disk to Disk Backup Shared Virtual Tape Library

Multi-platform support: Common GUI across all platforms: Centralized Management: Shared Memory: Network Compression: True Image Restore: Linux, , Windows, MAC OS X, Linux, Solaris, Windows or MAC — NetVault: A single NetVault: Backup GUI Improving performance, NetVault: Backup’s For heavily utilized networks or for When restoring a set of files that have been changed, etc. — covering nearly every Backup has the same user interface across using the Domain Management shared memory feature allows administrators remote locations with limited data deleted or modified over time, NetVault: Backup will major computing platform. all platforms — reducing training time and feature can manage multiple to determine how much I/O buffer cache to bandwidth, NetVault: Backup Clients correctly restore a single file or an entire file system to money when using NetVault: Backup across NetVault: Backup servers running use while backing up or recovering data — can compress data blocks before the image seen on disk at the point in time when each different platforms. Plus NetVault: Backup on different operating systems By supporting simultaneous read and write sending them over the network, backup was taken. Even if the backup instance used to for MAC OS X comes complete with a new with disparate client backup operations to the shared buffer NetVault: increasing throughput. select the restore of an entire volume included only Aqua UI with the MAC “look and feel”. scheduling and all their devices. Backup ensures the backup process will keep incremental data, NetVault: Backup will carefully recover even the most sophisticated tape devices the complete set of files by automatically using the streaming and reduce backup windows. correct backup media. A wide variety of Storage Options: LAN Free Backup: Centralized Management: performance or tape drive failures over DAS/SAN/NAS Coverage: By combining SmartClient’s with DSD’s With NetVault: Backup’s Network a period of time for example, can also NetVault: Backup supports the majority in a SAN, the NetVault: Backup Controllable Server technology, an give an administrator unique views. of popular tape drives, auto-loaders, and administrator can create a LAN-free Virtual Tape Library (VTL) administrator with proper login rights can Reports can be scheduled to run at a libraries on the market today. Backups backup environment. Backup data does remotely administer any NetVault: Backup specified time and displayed on-screen can be performed whether the tape not need to traverse the LAN to be written server on the network. or sent out via email. NetVault: Backup’s LAN drives are connected to servers via local to locally attached storage devices. This reports are completely customizable — SCSI buses, iSCSI over an IP network or keeps the LAN free of backup traffic and from field selection to field length, over a SAN. For NAS devices that support more available for other application usage. output size and ordering. NDMP, backup data can be transferred to both locally attached devices or over a Disk-to-disk Backup network to the backup server or a • Virtual Tape Library (VTL): SmartClient® , thus optimizing data By creating a virtual tape library inside NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Virtual Tape transfer rates and providing system a disk file system, NetVault: Backup can Backup Backup Backup Backup Library (VTL) Server Client Client Smart Client redundancy. backup data to this virtual pool of storage. Regardless of whether a real, physical Dynamically Sharing Drives on a SAN: tape drive or tape library exists, users on the network. A NetVault: NetVault: Backup’s DSD™ (Dynamically NetVault: Backup’s VTL can operate as Disk to Tape Backup user can be assigned a set of Shared Drive) technology allows more a stand-alone backup storage device. Disk to Disk Copy Also roles and functions to administer. After than one system to utilize a tape device When creating a VTL, the user is free to Backup Virtual Tape Available Tape Library (VTL) Library entering proper login credentials, the connected to a Fibre Channel SAN, IP select an arbitrary number of virtual user has access to ONLY those areas of SAN using iSCSI, or through a local tape drives, tape slots, and to specify NetVault: Backup for which they have For advanced reporting capabilities, shared-SCSI chain. Backup data transfers the size of each tape. Each VTL can be been granted privileges. For example, BakBone offers the NetVault: Report are optimized and the number of “single constructed within minutes to “right-size” certain IT staff may only be permitted to Manager for Backup product which points of failure” is reduced. the necessary backup volume and work- Shared Virtual Tape Library (SVTL) Policy-based Job Management: schedule backups for a specific group of allows consolidation of information from load capacity. A VTL may be created to LAN Administrators can easily create a sales machines, blocking access to other one or more NetVault: Backup servers Support for Client-side backup: handle any number of concurrent client backup job template that can be department’s servers. Normal users can to create a single view into enterprise-wide • SmartClientTM backups, vastly improving on the applied to any number of like NetVault: be given the right to schedule backups NetVault; Backup operations. The With NetVault: Backup’s SmartClient multi-plexing methods offered by other Backup clients, with NetVault: Backup’s and run reports with restrictions to only NetVault: Report Manager for Backup technology both real and virtual backup vendors. Policy Editor. Changes to a well-designed a client where they have access rights — product also provides a visual monitoring targets can be easily distributed NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: backup strategy can be easily applied to thus protecting backup resources for and alerting capability to identify potential NetVault: Backup Backup Backup jobs running on clients in the policy mission-critical systems. problems early and quickly. The NetVault: throughout the backup domain. Backup Taking advantage of hard disk’s low-cost Backup Client Client Client data no longer needs to pass over the and high-performance random access Server using the Policy Editor; in addition small Report Manager for Backup product also network and through a NetVault: Backup features, your backup windows can be modifications can easily be made to Enhanced Reporting: includes additional pre-defined reports server in order to be written to a storage shortened and backup operations can customize a policy for each NetVault: NetVault: Backup’s reporting functionality that are not available within NetVault: device. SmartClient’s are an optimal commence with or without the presence SAN Backup client if necessary. NetVault: includes the ability to generate reports Backup’s built-in reporting mechanisms. solution for multiple clients with large of a physical tape device. Backups can Backup’s policy management functionality in several formats: HTML, Text, and Disk to Disk cuts down on administration overhead spreadsheet/database usable Event Notification: amounts of data, or for remotely be kept online in a VTL and either Back Up Disk to Tape controlling backup operations of branch migrated or duplicated to physical tape Copy Also and human error in larger environments. comma-delimited output. NetVault: Backup Pre-defined and user-defined events Available comes with 29 pre-defined reports on may be enabled to give administrators offices. While the SmartClient performs at a later time (during off-peak hours User Level Access: topics such as backup job completion an early warning when failures or even local backups to a DAS (virtual tape for example) for off-site storage. Recently, This unique functionality allows NetVault: status, tape drive status, tape storage successes occur. NetVault: Backup can library, tape drive, or tape library), all many customers have chosen this method Shared Virtual Tape Tape Backup administrators to delegate backup utilization, backup performance, etc. notify administrators via various methods the scheduling and “on-disk” indexing to keep Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) Library (SVTL) Library and recovery responsibilities to other Historical reports, showing backup such as email or operator messages. information is stored on the NetVault: as part of their SLA’s to a minimum, Backup server — thus lowering the keeping only the most recent set(s) of Automated Log Management: SmartClient system resource requirements. backups on VTL while moving older LAN NetVault: Backup will automatically backup sets off to tape for offline, purge old log files, preventing NetVault: long-term storage. Backup logs from taking up too much disk space. SmartClient • Shared Virtual Tape Library (SVTL): With all of the benefits of a regular VTL, NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Tape NetVault: NetVault: Backup Database (NVDB) Backup Backup Backup Backup a variety of disparate operating systems Backup Library Client Client Client NetVault: Backup continues to lead the Server Domain can share a single VTL’s resources market with the smallest on-disk index residing on a SAN-attached disk system Network Controllable Server footprint. Old backup index information NetVault: Backup LAN Server with NetVault: Backup’s SVTL technology. can be automatically compressed or LAN A NetVault: Backup server and several NetVault: Backup even archived to save space without Remote SmartClients can simultaneously write Management deleting restore information. backup streams and access restore data Terminal from a SVTL. NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Tape Backup Backup Backup Backup Library Backup Client Client Client Domain NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Tape Remote Server Backup Backup Backup Library Client Client Smart Client Management Network Controllable Server Backup Consolidation Disaster Recovery Option: • NDMP Plugin: (Incremental Consolidation): Consolidate Incremental Backup NetVault: Backup’s VaultDR option is a NDMP data can be backed up in a variety of technology used for keeping disaster ways: [1] from the NAS box directly to SCSI With Backup Consolidation, a NetVault: LAN or SAN-attached storage; [2] from one NAS recovery images both complete and Backup administrator only needs to perform VaultDR to another NAS with direct-attached storage; simple — saving administrator overhead NetVault: Backup Tape an initial Full Backup of a large departmental Server Library [3] data from NetVault Servers and Clients and reducing hardware requirements. A can be backed up via LAN through the NAS box Incrementals of Client A Disaster Recovery Disaster Recovery file server or Exchange database; from that VaultDR CD-R contains a self-booting Restore Backup to direct-attached storage; [4] data from any Incrementals of Client B LAN point on, only incremental backups are number of NAS boxes may be sent over the NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Incrementals of Client C (VaultOS) and a disaster LAN to storage devices connected to NetVault needed. Afterwards, in an operation that Backup Backup Backup recovery specific NetVault: Backup Client A Client B Client C NetVault: Tape Library Full Backup Backup Servers or SmartClients on the network; and, does not affect the server from which the Server client.All pertinent system information is [5] in a NAS / SAN environment, backup data kept on the backup media itself. VaultDR data came, consolidation synthetically creates 1st Week 2nd Week 3rd Week... from both open systems (Windows, Unix, creates complete system copies — Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) and NDMP data from First Windows Linux Unixware SCO a new full backup. Not only reducing the Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Week End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Week End Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Week End Full Backup including operating system and applica- Client Client Client Client NAS boxes may share the same NDMP storage backup window, backup consolidation also VaultDR Client tion data — all in one backup image. A devices (tapes and tape drives). preserves the ability to perform quick, full Usual Backup Full Full Full Backup Full Backup Backup Backup Backup VaultDR backup can be kept in the same Operation Data Flow For DR Boot, • NDMP Snapshot Manager Plugin: restores. Full backups may be created as actually transferred storage pool as regular backup data, VaultOS CD-R, For NetApp Filers with Snapshot licensing, over network. USB often as incremental backups are taken. thus eliminating the need to keep a NetVault:Backup offers a graphical interface Full Backup Consolidated separate set of tapes for backups and and centralized scheduling capabilities to Backup Network Data Management Protocol Operation Data OnTap administrators. NetVault: Backup usurps Backup Clustering: created CD-R images for disaster recovery. in Backup Option (NDMP): OnTap's snapshot schedule and provides Consolidate Consolidate Consolidate Since the operating system is offline The enhanced cluster support in NetVault: Create Create Create Server. NDMP was designed to efficiently transfer enhanced snapshot management. Full Backup Full Backup Full Backup during the backup, not only is a complete Backup can be implemented in either large blocks of data across a LAN or SAN recovery of both OS and application data • NDMP SnapMirror-to-Tape Plugin: Active/Passive or Active/Active clustered to a storage device. For NAS devices guaranteed, but it also means NetVault: For NetApp Filers with a SnapMirror license, utilizing NDMP, backups are performed environments. File systems or supported Backup can perform disaster recovery NetVault offers the ability to record a via this secure, high-performance applications can be configured for basic for any operating system that operates SnapMirror snapshot directly to tape for protocol, rather than using less efficient offline storage and disaster recovery purposes. failover, eliminating scripting and other on standard VaultOS supported Intel and less secure file sharing methods SnapMirror images may be restored to other Encryption Option: Open File Backup (OFM): hardware — including Linux, NetWare, manual operations. such as NFS or CIFS. NetVault: Backup NetApp Filers for assisting with hardware Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD. (For For systems with sensitive data, BakBone For Windows and NetWare servers, BakBone can send NDMP data directly to a locally upgrades or other disaster recovery tasks. * Specific information on cluster support is available at Windows and Linux, BakBone also offers www.bakbone.com/products/netvault7.3/ offers a 128-bit encryption plugin to offers an option to NetVault: Backup that backs attached SCSI device, a SAN-attached VaultDR Online, which performs online • NDMP SnapVault Manager Plugin: NetVault: Backup that encodes backup data up files in use by other processes (that would storage device (tape or VTL) or to a backups without the need to take the Snapshots of NetApp Filers containing SnapVault Clustering storage device elsewhere on the network. licensing and open systems (Linux / UNIX/ before it leaves the system and traverses the otherwise be locked and inaccessible to the system offline or reboot the system.) NetVault: Backup Windows, via OSSV licensing) can Server LAN or SAN. Each NetVault: Backup client backup process). Before a backup with OFM NDMP Plugin NDMP Plugin Tape (1) (2) be monitored and scheduled with Library using the Encryption plugin maintains its own commences, the plugin synchronizes the disk Application Online Backup: Tape Tape NetVault: Backup's GUI. Snapshot

individual key (not stored on the NetVault: write cache and creates a block-level image NetVault: Backup supports APMs for Data Data data movement can be easily Transfer

SCSI Transfer NetVault: SCSI NetVault: administered from a centralized Backup server), ensuring backups are only copy of all open files on the system. online backups for a wide variety of Backup NAS Backup NAS NAS database and messaging applications — Server Server location, greatly reducing system restorable to machines with the proper keys. administration workloads. such as DB2, Informix, Lotus Notes, LAN The encryption algorithm encrypts at the VSS SnapShot Support Option: Microsoft Exchange & SQL Server, client disk (source), and security is maintained By selecting the VSS SnapShot option within Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Sybase, Data NDMP NDMP Transfer over the network and while data is stored the NetVault: Backup GUI when defining a among others. With the APMs, Control LAN Control LAN NDMP on tape. backup job, selected volumes and files from Plugin NetVault: Backup servers and clients (5) Tape NDMP Plugin NDMP Plugin Shared the ‘frozen’ snapshot images provided by can be enhanced to perform application (3) (4) Data Transfer

Disk SCSI NetVault: Backup NetVault: Backup Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Services specific backups. Interfacing with the Tape Client Client SAN Cluster Node 1 Cluster Node 2 native APIs, NetVault: Backup draws Data (VSS), will be backed up without disrupting Transfer NetVault: SCSI Data Data NetWare data from the applications and catalogs Backup NetVault: NetVault: NAS Backup Transfer SCSI Transfer end user access to those files. Server Backup NAS NAS NetVault: Backup backup data according to application Server Server Server Tape Data type: all in a simple, point and click Transfer NetWare Backup: Library SCSI NetWare manner, within NetVault: Backup’s GUI. Tape NetVault's NetWare Loadable Module (NLM) Thin Data Data Client Transfer Transfer NDMP NDMP Control Control supports the backup of NetWare via NetVault's LAN NDMP Control LAN LAN Thin Client Application Plugin Module (APM) installed on a NetVault Server. Using NetVault's SnapShot Manager SnapMirror SnapVault Manager Plugin LAN Plugin to Tape NetVault: Backup NetApp NetApp NLM, NetWare servers may be backed up Plugin Server over the LAN to storage devices (Virtual Tape Data Transfer with NetVault SnapMirror Library or physical tape) connected to NetVault NetVault: NetVault: to Tape Plugin NDMP Control Backup NetApp Backup NetApp NetApp with NetVault Servers or NetVault SmartClients. With the Server Server SnapVault NetVault: NetVault: NetVault: Tape Manager Plugin Backup Backup Backup Library addition of the NetWare SmartClient option, NetWare NetWare NetWare Client Smart Client NetVault can backup data directly to locally Client Data Transfer with NetApp Data Transfer Option, OSSV attached tape devices on a NetWare Server NLM NLM NLM with NetApp (Open System NDMP Control NDMP Control Option, SnapMirror SnapVault) UNIX Linux Windows for LAN-less backups. Server Server Server