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UltraBac can back up and restore an ACTIVE Windows cluster. This
capability has been proven at Microsoft's Redmond Campus test facility.
Cluster failover support is also provided on the backup set level.
UltraBac automatically restarts the backup if failover occurs during
this process.
UltraBac upgrade deployments are a snap with UltraBac's Auto Update.
This functionality allows customers to easily deploy updates to
hundreds of servers and workstations with minimal user interaction.
Simply add a selection of tapes to a media pool and UltraBac will take
care of the rest. It is no longer necessary to specify autoloader slots
when scheduling backup jobs. Additional benefits of using media pools
include space savings on tape, automatic inventory of bar codes,
lower-level administration, and more in-depth logging information.
Automated cleaning options for tape libraries are now available.
UltraBac integrates client side compression, allowing network backups
to run up to one third faster. This standard feature automatically
compresses backup files on remote servers and workstations before they
are transferred across the network to the centralized backup machine.
Client side compression increases backup speed while decreasing the use
of network bandwidth.
UltraBac allows for both GUI-based and command line backups for maximum
flexibility in both backups & restores on local and remote hosts.
Organizations with minimal technical abilities can directly integrate
backup into their processes, based on their own requirements. Most GUI
interface functions are also available at command line level, so batch
files may be used to automate UltraBac commands if the user prefers.
Improvements have been made in many areas including searching media,
viewing volume information, preparing media, and ejecting media.
The database indexing option provides a centralized location to search
for a particular file that was backed up. This allows users to search
for files and/or file masks, and returns all results from available
media in seconds. Simply choose the file to restore, load the index,
click restore, and if an autoloader is being used it will load the
correct tape and do the restore automatically. This feature will save
users valuable time during the restore process. It will even return
several different versions of the same file so users can choose the
file they wish to restore.
Differential image backups take a full image snapshot then, when
subsequent differential images are performed, UltraBac will only back
up the sectors that have been modified since the last full image
backup, saving space on storage devices. For example, a network
administrator could schedule a full image backup once a week on Sunday
and only back up the changed sectors Monday through Saturday, allowing
him/her to have full image restore capability (down to the day) with
little more than a single full image backup stored.
UltraBac can back up data to any removable media on a network.
Disk-to-disk backups are compressed, reducing disk storage requirements
and making them VERY FAST. Disk-to-disk incremental backups scheduled
at intervals throughout the day can prevent loss of a day's work if a
disk crash or other data loss occurs between nightly backups. Supports
up to 1500 backup path devices.
UltraBac provides administrators an optional encryption function that
when applied, securely protects sensitive customer information and
confidential company data. The Federal Government's Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act specifies organizations that are required by privacy laws to fully
protect sensitive information. The act affects "any institution the
business of which is engaging in activities that are financial in
nature, or incidental to such financial activities." This includes
national banks, federally chartered thrifts, FDIC depositories,
insurance companies and agencies, securities firms, and other companies
that offer financial products and/or services. To help its commercial
and government customers comply with this act, UltraBac provides AES
(Advanced Encryption Standard) Encryption. The AES algorithm is capable
of using cryptographic keys of 128, 192, and 256 bits to encrypt and
decrypt data in blocks of 128 bits. It is configured globally on the
device level providing fully compliant data security. As a built-in
feature of the software, UltraBac's AES functionality easily allows
administrators to set the appropriate level of encryption protection as
needed. This feature provides users powerful data security at no extra
charge.
UltraBac's Exchange Agent is capable of running local and remote
backups of live databases without shutting them down. This minimizes
downtime for an Exchange mail server, essential for any enterprise
backup scheme. The Exchange Agent uses the Exchange API for fast backup
speeds and absolute minimum downtime during restoration. Allows SMTP
email notification and single mailbox recovery. Supports Exchange 5.5,
2000, 2003, and 2007 backups.
UltraBac's Express Index™ tremendously improves restore times on DLT
and QIC multi-track technology tape drives by pinpointing the exact
location of a file on tape. This completely eliminates the need to go
back and forth searching for a particular file. Testing has
conclusively proven that Express Index™ can reduce restore times on
these types of backup devices from hours to minutes.
The UltraBac FTP Device provides UltraBac with the ability to direct
backups to any FTP server compliant with the RFC 959 specification.
This makes configuring an offsite backup location extremely easy. An
FTP server with sufficient storage (even non-Windows hosts) is all you
need. The requirements to configure UltraBac's FTP Device capability
are very minimal: an address to a live FTP server, a valid login, and a
server-interpreted path specifying where the data should be stored. The
FTP Device is integrated seamlessly with UltraBac's Device Manager,
thereby allowing the use of heterogeneous storage devices as backup
media. In addition, Secure FTP (SFTP) provides better protection of
user information. SFTP is supported so that all information transferred
over the internet to the FTP device is encrypted, rather than just the
backup sets themselves.
Allows backup of locked exclusive files or a file to which Windows can
not gain access while open, such as WINS database and local PST files.
When UltraBac uses Locked File Backup, it temporarily "freezes" the
partition and backs up all the data on the drive whether or not the
data is locked by another application. Users can access the temporarily
"frozen" partition while it is being backed up. Locked File Backup is
now even more efficient in CPU and memory usage, and gives users the
ability to do differential image backups as well.
NEW in Q2
UltraBac introduces a brand new user interface (UI) based on a tabular
format similar to Microsoft's Office 2007. With visual and
organizational improvements to almost every facet of the UI, UltraBac
is now more intuitive and easier to use than ever.
The same version of UltraBac available on 32-bit x86 platforms is now
available on Itanium and AMD64 platforms. UltraBac can back up between
platforms, and even remotely manage different platforms as well.
UltraBac's Oracle Agent can run remote or local backups of any Oracle
server on the network. The entire agent code has been modified to use
the Oracle "Net8" network technology. This gives system administrators
the tools they need to easily back up Oracle databases, which often run
mission-critical tasks.
UltraBac can connect to any other UltraBac console using the "Connect
To" feature. The "Connect To" feature can be used to create sets on
other UltraBac servers, view backup jobs interactively, edit sets or
scheduled backup jobs, add new storage devices, and perform other
administrative tasks.
UltraBac's Remote Installer centralizes the task of installing or
updating the UltraBac application. Administrators simply double click
on one setup.exe file to distribute and install the software to chosen
servers and workstations on the network. MSI is no longer required for
installation so users are able to set up or update as many remote
locations as desired without manually installing the software on each
machine. For example, an administrator from a remote centralized
machine could automate the installation of 10 machines in approximately
three minutes.
Gives users the ability to push information from one server to another.
The Remote/Local Server Agent compresses the data on the local computer
before transferring it across the network, thus increasing backup speed
significantly. Another feature of the agent is capturing the System
State or Active Directory (for domain controllers) on a local or remote
Windows machine. This feature is absolutely essential for disaster
recovery on domain controllers. Without an Active Directory backup, it
would be impossible to rebuild a crashed domain controller back to its
original state. Now this critical task can even be achieved from a
remote backup server.
IMPROVED in Q2
UltraBac's Scheduler has a flexible filter to define one-time, daily,
weekly, and yearly scheduled backups. It has granularity equal to or
better than a CRON-based scheduler. The scheduler interface is easily
maneuverable and contains useful features like e-mail notification,
batch file execution, autoloader support, storage media failover, and
error checking options. The scheduler also contains an easy-to-use
wizard to guide the user, step-by-step, in the creation of a scheduled
backup. The graphical user interface has been enhanced with increased
scheduling views, streamlined toolbars, and log file handling. It also
provides the ability to schedule UltraCopy jobs directly from the
scheduler pane.
IMPROVED in Q2
UltraBac's SharePoint Server Agent enables organizations running
SharePoint to incorporate seamless backup and recovery within multiple
layers of collaborative data. The agent's approach is reflective of the
architecture in SharePoint itself by allowing multiple copies and
versioning of files, and public sharing of files in an organized
manner. Supports SharePoint 2003 and 2007 backups.
Single File Restore (SFR) capability provides backup administrators the
ability to restore single files from an image backup when the SFR
option is enabled. Single files are restored using UltraBac's standard
GUI. Image backups can be saved to any UNC path or tape device.
Using UltraBac's Single Mailbox Backup, mailboxes can be backed up on
an individual level. Each top-level object seen through Microsoft
Outlook® (with the exception of PST files) can be selected and backed
up using this feature. In addition to full Exchange server backups
using the UltraBac Exchange Agent, this integrated feature provides
more fault tolerance, particularly for mission-critical mailboxes. If a
mailbox or an object within a mailbox is accidentally deleted through
Microsoft Outlook, it may be restored one of two ways - the user can
either overwrite the current contents of the Mailbox or temporarily
mount the mailbox to a PST file and copy the missing contents from the
PST folder to its original location.
IMPROVED in Q2
UltraBac's SQL Server Agent allows backup of an open Microsoft® SQL
Server database without shutting down the database service beforehand.
The SQL Server Agent uses Microsoft APIs to run the backup and restore,
thereby insuring speed and reliability of the backup. UltraBac can
restore a database to its original location or move it from one SQL
server to another. Supports SQL Server 2008, 2005, 2000, and 5.5.
This feature allows the backup administrator to use a remote tape drive
on the network as a storage device. Remote autoloader administration
can also be accomplished. The Storage Device Manager facilitates
centralized backup storage, which can be a much more efficient and
organized solution, especially helpful when recovery is needed "on the
fly." Supports all remote tape devices.
UltraBac Tivoli Storage Manager Device allows UltraBac to write data to
a Tivoli Storage Manager server. UltraBac manages the administration of
the backup and restore processes, while Tivoli manages the media that
these backups are written to. The device is built atop the Tivoli
Storage Manager API for a robust interface with the Tivoli Storage
Manager architecture, and has been qualified for TSM API levels 4.2 and
above. Requires UltraBac Single Server License.
This very convenient utility is designed to allow duplicate tape
copying between tape drives; the ability to duplicate a disk backup to
tape; and take multiple disk backups, copy, and consolidate them in
their native UltraBac format to tape with built-in media spanning
capability. It can also send all backups to disk, while setting up a
job to run UltraCopy. This innovative tool then duplicates the backups
to tape for offsite storage. This utility, like UltraBac itself, has
command line functionality so users can script this process to occur
whenever they like. UltraCopy also features library / media pool
support, device support verification, and speed enhancements when
restoring from UltraCopy.
UltraBac's Unix Agent offers remote back up capabilities for Linux,
HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Sun Intel, FreeBSD, and Mac OSX. UltraBac now
provides much faster enumeration times for all platforms.
NEW in Q2
UltraBac's VCB Agent enables organizations running VMware Consolidated
Backup to perform centralized FullVM (image) or FileVM (file-by-file)
backups. Utilizing VMware's snapshot technology, both file-by-file and
image backups ensure that the system is backed up in a clean state.
Users have the ability to pick and choose which virtual machines (VMs)
to image while performing a FullVM, and/or what files and folders to
back up while performing a FileVM. FileVM backups can be restored back
to the original or an alternate location. Options for both types of
backups include backing up all VMs, only powered on VMs, all
powered-off VMs, by VM name, by IP address, by MoRef, and by UUID.
UltraBac provides an option for file-by-file backup customers to use
Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) to safely freeze open
files for backup, in lieu of the proprietary UltraBac Locked File
Backup Agent. VSS is a user selectable option for file-by-file, as well
as image backups, on both 32 and 64-bit machines.
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