Brightstor Arcserve Backup R11.5 for Windows Beta

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BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup r11.5 for Windows BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup for Windows offers world-class data protection for distributed servers, databases and applications, as well as clients for multiple environments, including Windows, UNIX, Linux, and NetWare. With its wide range of powerful, easy-to-use data protection tools, BrightStor ARCserve Backup ensures the integrity and availability of your most important asset—data

Top Three Key Features As businesses grow, so do their Access to Information storage requirements, and data • Complete data protection solution Is Key to Success protection environments can become for Windows extremely complex. As a result, • Wide Platform and Application In an increasingly competitive businesses demand exceptional Support business environment, the availability flexibility from software tools. To meet • Centralized Management of the of information is often the differentiator the rising need to manage data growth Backup Environment between success and failure. The and provide around-the-clock proliferation of the Internet and the availability, many organizations are What’s New movement towards on-demand deploying the latest storage computing has only heightened the technologies, including Storage Area • Disk Staging Backup (D2D2T) need to effectively leverage Networks (SANs), Network-Attached • Microsoft SharePoint Agent information assets to increase revenue Storage (NAS) and Disk Arrays. • 64 bit platform support and profit opportunities. And at the heart of an organization’s information The ideal data protection solution must • Regulatory compliance assets are its data resources. address the business demands for enhancements high performance and availability, With all the potential disasters in scale with the environment and Supporting Environments today’s world — fire, flood, theft, leverage new storage paradigms such • Windows 2003/2000/XP hardware failure, human error, virus as SAN, NAS, snapshot capable disks • IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, attacks and so forth — every and cross-platform management Tru64 organization needs to protect its data across the entire enterprise, including and ensure its continued availability. multiple operating systems and • Redhat Enterprise Linux, SuSE applications. Linux Enterprise Server, TurboLinux, Red Flag, Miracle linux and Asianux • Novell NetWare

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protect all of their data, including of Microsoft Exchange environment. Protecting the those from their distributed branch Single Instance Storage (SIS) Enterprise’s Critical offices from one centralized server. support ensures that only single Information Assets The advantage lies in that every copies of duplicate attachments are BrightStor ARCserve Backup option backed-up, improving backup and supports many configurations and restore performance as well as BrightStor ARCserve Backup ensures platforms, including Windows, Linux, reducing backup media usage. the protection and availability of critical NetWare and UNIX. business data. BrightStor ARCserve • VSS Snapshot Support. BrightStor Backup for Windows uses award- ARCserve Backup can backup any winning, innovative technology to Distinctive Features application that supports Microsoft deliver complete data protection VSS interface. This gives you out of across the enterprise for Windows, and Functionalities the box backup support for a large UNIX, Linux and NetWare systems. number of applications. In addition, Extensive Operating Platform and BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides Transportable VSS snapshot Application Support several key benefits, including: support provides zero impact backup and very fast restore • Protection of Critical Business Protection of Critical Application capabilities. Assets. BrightStor ARCserve Data. BrightStor ARCserve Backup Backup provides data protection for has application-specific agents to • Open File Agent. Using Open File Agent, all files, even those locked all leading operating systems, support all the leading applications, by running applications can be hardware platforms and such as Microsoft SQL Server, successfully backed with no applications. Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft application downtime. • High Performance. BrightStor SharePoint, Oracle, Lotus Domino, ARCserve Backup leverages SAP R/3, Sybase and many others. High Performance Backup and multiple methods, including backup They ensure data integrity by protecting the transaction log, archive Restore to disk, disk staging, multiplexing log and journal files along with the and multistreaming among others to • Integrated Backup to Disk. data, and also allows advanced provide high-performance, non- Backup to disk allows users to use operations such as tablespace disruptive backup and restore disk technology as an intermediate backups and restores. operations to mission-critical step in the backup process. Faster information and data assets. • Protection for all your Platforms. access speed and higher reliability • Simplified Administration. The BrightStor ARCserve Backup can of disk technologies ensures simple to use interface provides full protect remote servers running all reduced backup and restore time as automation and centralization of leading operating systems such as well as higher success rate for traditional data protection tasks for Microsoft Windows, Novell backups. distributed and enterprise NetWare, various Linux • Hardware Snapshot Support. environments. distributions, UNIX derivatives, BrightStor ARCserve Backup can • Scalability. BrightStor ARCserve AS400, MAC OS X, and VMS. leverage snapshot capabilities in Backup provides a complete backup • Microsoft Exchange Advanced disk arrays to provide instantaneous solution regardless of the size or Backup and Restore Support. data protection without impacting type of your organization. Even the BrightStor ARCserve Backup the production server. largest enterprises can use provides optimized BrightStor ARCserve Backup to document-level backup and restore

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• Multiplexing Capabilities. • Multiple NIC Support. Multiple NIC • Integrated Antivirus Capabilities. Multiplexing enables up to 32 jobs cards can be installed to create a Integration with industry leading to write to the same tape media separate storage network without eTrust™ Antivirus solution ensures simultaneously. This technology not the costs associated with deploying the backed up data is reliable and only reduces backup window, but a SAN. This can help to avoid data virus free. also makes efficient use of tape bottlenecks and improve backup • Extensive Reporting Capabilities. libraries and media. performance. BrightStor ARCserve Backup • Multistreaming. Multistreaming • Off-Site Vaulting Integration. includes extensive list of predefined allows backing up large databases BrightStor ARCserve Backup is reports, including Real-Time to multiple tape drives designed to play a key role in your Backup/Restore Statistics, simultaneously, reducing backup overall disaster recovery plan. It Recovery Report which can also be time. provides advanced media sent via email. • Bare Metal Recovery. BrightStor management for Windows servers • Multiple Language Support. ARCserve Backup bare metal and integrates smoothly with your BrightStor ARCserve Backup is recovery that allow servers to be off-site vaulting provider (such as localized in most common recovered from catastrophic failures Iron Mountain and others). European, Asian and South quickly and easily, without the need • WORM Device Support. BrightStor American languages. for reinstalling operating system. ARCserve Backup supports a

variety of Write-Once-Read-Many Extensive Device and Media (WORM) devices, making it easy to Support maintain a legal compliance. Supported • Cross-Platform SAN Support. • StorageTek Automated Cartridge Environments With BrightStor ARCserve Backup, System Library Software (ACSLS) multiple platforms (such as UNIX, and IBM 3494 Libraries support. • Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, XP Linux and Windows) can share tape Through its corresponding agents, • Redhat Enterprise Linux, SuSE libraries and other storage devices BrightStor ARCserve Backup Linux Enterprise Server, on a SAN without the need to enables you to use these advanced TurboLinux, Red Flag, Miracle linux logically partition or zone the device libraries to protect your entire and Asianux reducing cost and management infrastructure. • IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 overhead. Ease of Deployment and • Small Library Support BrightStor Administration • Novell NetWare ARCserve Backup r11.5 includes • Command Line Interface. For latest and detailed information on support for a tape libraries with one Common data protection functions supported environments please visit: drive and unlimited slots without the ® ® can be run directly from the http://ca.com/arcserve/winsupport need for BrightStor ARCserve command line, from scripts and also Backup Tape Library Option from other automation solutions like • NDMP Support. BrightStor Unicenter® Network and Systems ARCserve Backup can back up to Management. tape drive and libraries attached directly to NAS devices. Three-way NDMP support is also included.

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What’s New in r11.5

• Disk Staging Backup (D2D2T). D2D2T shrinks backup time by allowing backup data to be staged to fast disk drives before it is automatically moved to tape. Restore requests are redirected to disks automatically, reducing recovery time. The whole operation is policy driven, reducing cost and management overhead. (See Figure 1) • Microsoft SharePoint Support. BrightStor ARCserve Backup can identify and efficiently backup Microsoft SharePoint and all its components. • 64 Bit Platform Support. r11.5 release will allow you to leverage the performance and scalability benefits of Figure 1: BrightStor ARCserve Backup Disk Staging functionality allows policy based 64 bit hardware platform in backup movement of backup data from disk to tape servers as well as protect applications running in 64 bit operating systems. • Support for Virtual Machine Sessions. Windows Virtual Server, • Windows 2003 OBDR. With Windows Windows Virtual PC as well as VMware 2003 One Button Disaster sessions hosted on servers can be Recovery(OBDR) support, bare metal recovery of the failed server can be protected using BrightStor ARCserve performed by booting from a tape Backup. drive, saving time and resource. • Incremental/Differential VSS support. VSS Incremental/Differential • Regulatory Compliance backup support will reduce the time Enhancements. Features like Netapp needed to backup applications Snaplock support, IBM Worm and supporting Microsoft VSS framework LTO-3 Worm support will enable system administrators perform backups as per regulatory requirements For more information, • Smart Restore Capability. If BrightStor ARCserve Backup call 1-877-246-3674 encounters a bad media, it redirects or visit ca.com the restore job to other media containing the same data without any manual intervention, reducing need for human intervention and restore time