Data Sheet

BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup r11.5

for Windows Options and Agents
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.

Key Features
including Storage Area Networks (SANs),
• Disk Staging Option Access to Information Network-Attached Storage (NAS) and
• Disaster Recovery Option
• Tape Library Option
Is Key to Success Disk Arrays.

• SAN Option The ideal data protection solution must

In an increasingly competitive business
• NDMP NAS Option address the business demands for high
environment, the availability of
• Image Option performance and availability, scale with
information is often the differentiator
• Tape RAID Option the environment and leverage new
between success and failure. The
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup for
proliferation of the Internet and the storage paradigms such as SAN, NAS,
Laptops and Desktops snapshot capable disks and cross-
movement towards on-demand
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for platform management across the entire
computing has only heightened the need
Open Files
to effectively leverage information assets enterprise, including multiple operating
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for systems and applications.
Microsoft Exchange
to increase revenue and profit
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for opportunities. And at the heart of an
Microsoft SQL Server organization’s information assets are its Protecting the
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for data resources.
Oracle
Enterprise’s Critical
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for With all the potential disasters in today’s Information Assets
Informix world — fire, flood, theft, hardware failure,
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent for human error, virus attacks and so forth — BrightStor ARCserve Backup helps
Sybase every organization needs to protect its ensure the protection and availability of
• BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Option data and ensure its continued availability. critical business data. In addressing the
for VSS Software Snapshot Supporting challenges of today’s dynamic business
Environments As businesses grow, so do their storage world, BrightStor ARCserve Backup uses
Supporting Environments requirements, and data protection award-winning, innovative technology to
environments can become extremely deliver complete data protection across
• Windows 2003/2000/XP complex. As a result, businesses demand the enterprise and includes the features
• IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64 exceptional flexibility from software tools. to protect all your critical information
• Redhat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise To meet the rising need to manage data without increasing costs or IT staff.
Server, TurboLinux, Red Flag, Miracle linux and growth and provide around-the-clock
Asianux
availability, many organizations are
• Novell NetWare deploying the latest storage technologies,
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Distinctive Features
and Functionalities
Maximize Performance.
BrightStor ARCserve Backup supports
multiple options that enhance the
performance of backup and restore
operations based on business
requirements.
Disk Staging Option.
Disk staging 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 operation is policy
driven, reducing operational cost and
management overhead. The functionality
is built into the base product but Disk
Staging Option allows fullest use of the
disk staging capabilities like backup of up
to 32 streams to disk devices.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup
Disaster Recovery Option.
BrightStor Disaster Recovery Option
provides fast and easy method of
recovering data in the event of a complete
server failure without the need for
reinstalling the operating system. CD-
based disaster recovery is supported in
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape
Library Option.
Supports and provides advanced device
and media management for multiple drive
libraries. With this option, BrightStor
ARCserve Backup can send
simultaneous data streams to each drive
to optimize throughput on any multiple-
drive tape library.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup
Optical Library Option.
Delivers flexible, automatic optical library
support and provides advanced device
and media management for multiple-drive
libraries.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup SAN
Option.
Fully leverages Fibre Channel technology
to offload backup and restore tasks from
networks. By allowing multiple servers to
share the tape libraries the ROI for these
devices is greatly improved.
BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup
Serverless Backup Option.
Leverages the Extended Copy/Third-
Party Copy command supported in many
SAN devices to significantly reduce
resource usage in the production server
as well as backup time and resource
usage in performance. The backup load is
taken off servers, freeing CPU and I/O
time for mission-critical tasks. All data is
transferred directly from disk by the data
mover to the tape device connected on
the SAN.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup NDMP
NAS Option.
Allows administrators to manage backup
and restore operations on NAS devices
using the Network Data Management
Protocol (NDMP).
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Image
Option.
Improves the performance and reduces
the backup window of a server by backing
up a block-level image of the data rather
than processing file by file to eliminate
any file system bottleneck. This solution
retains the flexibility to allow file level
restores.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Tape
RAID Option.
Enhances backup and restore
performance by striping data across
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Figure. 1. Administrators can find all Options
and Agents in one single CD.
multiple drives in a RAID configuration
much like that of RAID configurations on
disk. RAID level 0, 1 and 5 are supported
configurations. Choose the level based on
your need for performance and/or
availability.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup for
Laptops and Desktops. Designed to
minimize the business risks associated
with loss of laptop and desktop data due
to theft, hardware failure, viruses, natural
disasters and human errors.
Support for Databases and Email
Applications.
Using a wide range of agents, BrightStor
ARCserve Backup protects all major
databases and messaging systems even
as the applications continue to perform
their business critical tasks.
Microsoft SharePoint Support.
Protects all Sharepoint databases like
portal, search index and single sign-on
databases. Offers automated deployment
of agents to all servers in a Sharepoint
farm as well as advanced algorithms for
ensuring consistent backup and restore of
SharePoint data like SharePoint topology
verification before backup and automated
verification of restored data.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Option
for VSS Software Snapshot
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This option works with VSS-aware
applications running on Microsoft
Windows 2003 systems to provide point-
in-time backup and restore of application
and file system data. As changes are
made to the original information,
intermediate shadow copies are created
for protecting the changed data.
BrightStor ARCserve Backup Enterprise
Option for VSS Software Snapshot
protects data without interrupting regular
workflow and as well as backup files
opened by applications. This option can
create software-based shadow copies as
well as hardware-based shadow copies
on devices that support this functionality.
BrightStor ARCserve Backup Enterprise
Option for Hardware Snapshot is required
to transport hardware snapshots from one
server to another over the SAN.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Open Files.
Provides online backup and restore of
ALL files — even those that are open or
in use (including system and database
files, documents, spreadsheets, drawings,
publishing files and more). This ensures a
all files are backed up including those that
are in use and locked by applications.
This option supports NetWare 4.x, 5.x, 6.x
and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003,
including Windows files on 64-bit
systems.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Microsoft Exchange.
Delivers the fastest and most flexible
online protection of Microsoft Exchange
server databases and database objects
and provides simple recovery options.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Microsoft Exchange Premium Add-
on.
This add-on (to BrightStor ARCserve
Backup Agent for Microsoft Exchange)
offers advanced configuration options,
including:
• Message-level restores
• Complete support for Single Instance
Storage (SIS)
• Document-level backup and restore
(storage group, mailbox, folder,
document and so on)
• Maximized performance and flexibility
by supporting multithreading with multi-
CPU systems
• Enhanced cluster support
• Push agent technology
• Multiplexing — multiple jobs write to
same media simultaneously
• Migration support for migrating
users/mailboxes to alternate
environments
• Makeup job continuation
• Browse-level and backup filters
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Microsoft SQL Server.
High-performance backup and recovery
for active Microsoft SQL Servers with
granular protection down to the individual
database or file group. The Agent for
Microsoft SQL Server ensures complete
data and transactional integrity,
performing consistency checks on all
physical and logical links before and after
each backup and restore.
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BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Client
Agents.
Using a wide range of client agents,
BrightStor ARCserve Backup protects file
systems on all major operating platforms.
Following are some of the operating
environments supported. New platform
support is added regularly.
• Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows
NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP 32-
and 64-bit and Windows 2003 32- and
64-bit
• All major UNIX derivatives, including
Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, Silicon
Graphics, IRIX and SCO UNIX
• Major Linux distributions such as Red
Hat, SuSE, TurboLinux and Debian
• Mac OS X
• Novell NetWare 4,2, 5.1, 6.0, 6.5
• Mac OS X
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Oracle.
Provides protection of the Oracle
database while in use, enabling complete
data and transactional integrity. The
agent has tight integration with Oracle
Recovery Manager (RMAN).
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent
for Lotus/Domino.
Communicates with Lotus/Domino and
BrightStor ARCserve Backup to provide
rapid backup of active Lotus/Domino
databases on local or remote servers.
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BrightStor ARCserve Backup
Enterprise Option for SAP R/3.
BrightStor ARCserve Backup Enterprise
Option for SAP R/3 helps ensure
complete data and transactional integrity
of the R/3 database. Provides ”SAP
Certified” protection of the SAP R/3
database.
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BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent

for Informix.

BrightStor ARCserve Backup Agent for

Informix provides comprehensive backup
for IBM Informix objects, such as log files,
root databases, dbspaces (critical and
non-critical) and blobspaces. The agent
works with BrightStor ARCserve Backup
and the Informix Server’s backup and
restore facilities to deliver a powerful,
easy-to-use backup and restore solution
for Informix environments.

BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Agent

for Sybase.

Ensures round-the-clock protection of the

Sybase databases and transaction logs
while in use. Supports Sybase Adaptive
Server.

Enterprise Module. Figure 2. Administrators can select the agents and options to install from a single console.

This module installed on top of the base

product, allows administrator to leverage
enterprise capabilities to the product, like
Vaulting, Media Management, Supported For more information,
Multiplexing up to 32 streams and more.
This module is required in order to
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leverage the enterprise options available • Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003, XP or visit ca.com
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Enterprise Server, TurboLinux, Red
Enterprise Options.
Flag, Miracle linux and Asianux
• IBM AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64
Enterprise level options to maximize your
• Novell NetWare
performance and your storage assets.
The enterprise options are available for For latest and detailed information on
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hardware Snap-shot, Advantage Ingres,
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Open VMS, AS/400. Please refer to
Enterprise Option specific data sheet for
further details.

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