Backup Professional Specifications

• Technical info
• Operating systems supported
• Robotics/Jukebox support
• Devices supported

Technical Information

• Handles files which lengthen or shorten during backup
• Exclude all read-only mounted filesystems optionally
• Can limit backup to a single filesystem without unmounting
• Verification of full backup to ensure restorability
• Pre-configured profiles for ease of use
• Full security embedded into the backup
• On-line trouble-shooter which generates its own technical support fax sheet
• Backup results and verification mailed to the system administrator
• Ability to set the level of subdirectories to backup
• Double buffering (splits backup into 2 processes which helps improve backup time to 35-50%, especially fast for multiple CPU environments)
• Speed option using shared memory, semaphores, and split processes

Restores

• Error recovery - capable of doing salvage backup of failing hard disk
• Update restore can update files on hard disk out of date with archive
• Can override absolute pathnames to restore files to current directory
• Selective file restore by name

Miscellaneous

• Two levels of verification - Checksum on headers or Bit-level verification compare
• Exclude individual files, directories, and filesystems on backup or restore
• Fully compatible with all versions of TAR
• Large blocking factor: limited only by CPU bit size
• Very fast
• Fully command line accessible
• Automatic client registration with server
• Upgrading to new releases takes 3-5 minutes, and ALL of your previous configuration changes and settings are preserved and merged into new release
• Configurable CPU runtime priority
• Encryption - Will be available in release 1.3
• User intuitive, friendly windowing character interface for the server
• Remote administrator module

 Operating Systems Supported

Operating Systems Supported
SERVER PLATFORMS	FreeBSD 3.2 and higher
	HP-UX 10.0 and above
	IBM AIX 4.x
	OpenUNIX 8
	Other Linux
	Red Hat Linux 7.x, 9
	SCO OpenServer 5
	SCO Unix Classic (ODT)
	SCO UnixWare 7.1.1 and lower
	Solaris SPARC 2.5 – 2.8
	SVR4 (UnixWare 2.x Intel, Sol Intel)
	Tru64 (Alpha)

Supported Systems - BareMetal Software (Image Backups)

Robotics/Jukebox Support

• Backup Professional® library module supports most industry standard Jukebox devices
• With our OpenSystems approach, any 3rd party utilities/drivers can be used to support the Jukebox device
• Backup Professional® library support has the capacity to backup and archive multi-gigabyte networks
• Easy to understand and control tapes and slots in jukebox
• Even as backup windows grow smaller, Backup Professional® library support can perform backups that are fast, dependable, and automatic
• Automation also helps eliminate the major cause of data loss - human error, the net result is automated tape libraries which help cut the time and cost of data management in half

Devices Supported

All major manufacturers’ tape devices, including:

• DLT (Digital Linear Tapes)
• 4mm DAT DDS, DDS2, and DDS3
• 8mm Helical Scan Tape Units
• LTO - Linear Tape Open Technology
• SCSI, QIC, IDE, Floppy Tape Units
• SONY AIT Drives (AIT1 & AIT2)
• Tandberg Data MLR/SLR Technology
• All SCSI-2 compliant Auto-loaders, Tape Libraries, and Jukeboxes