Fujitsu siemens BRIGHTSTOR ARCSERVE BACKUP R11.5 LINUX DATASHEET

BrightStor® ARCserve®

Backup r11.5 for Linux

Issue

April 2009

Pages

4

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

Access to information is key to success

In an increasingly competitive business environment, the
availability of information is often the differentiator between
success and failure. The proliferation of the Internet and
the movement toward on-demand computing has only
heightened the need to effectively leverage information
assets to increase revenue and profit opportunities. And at

the heart of an organization’s information assets are its

data resources.
With all the potential disasters in today’s world - fire, flood,

theft, hardware failure, human error, virus infection and so
on - every organization needs to protect its critical data to
help ensure its continued availability.

As businesses grow, so do storage requirements, and data
protection environments can become extremely complex.
As a result, businesses demand exceptional flexibility from
software tools. To meet the rising need to manage data
growth and around-the-clock availability, many
organizations are considering deploying the latest storage
technology, including storage area networks (SANs) and
network-attached storage (NAS).

The ideal data protection solution must address the
business demands for high performance and availability,
scale with the environment and leverage new storage
paradigms such as NAS and SANs. It must also provide
flexible and consistent management across all the
platforms the organization chooses to deploy.

Protecting the Enterprise’s Critical

Information Assets

BrightStor ARCserve Backup from Computer
Associates International, Inc. (CA) helps ensure

the protection and availability of critical business data. Over
the years, Linux has become an important platform and
many companies have adopted it as part of their business
strategy. BrightStor ARCserve Backup uses award­winning, innovative technology to deliver complete data
protection across the enterprise, supporting Linux,
Windows, UNIX and NetWare. This solution provides
several key benefits, including:

Comprehensive Protection of Critical Business Assets

BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides data protection for
all leading operating systems, hardware platforms and
applications.

High Performance

BrightStor ARCserve Backup leverages multiple methods,
including multiplexing, to provide high-performance, no
disruptive backup and restore operations for mission-critical
information and data assets.

Simplified Administration

This solution provides full automation and centralization
of traditional data protection tasks for distributed and
enterprise environments.

Scalability

BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides a complete backup

solution regardless of organization’s size or type. You can

back up all data from one centralized server to various
branch offices, even in the largest enterprises.
Every BrightStor ARCserve Backup option supports many
configurations and platforms, including Linux, Windows,
NetWare and UNIX.

Distinctive Features and Functionalities

Protection of Critical Application Data

BrightStor ARCserve Backup has application-specific
agents to support all the leading applications, such as

Apache web servers, and Oracle, Advantage™ Ingres®

and MySQL databases. These agents help ensure data
integrity by protecting the transaction log, archive log and
journal files along with the data, which enables advanced
capabilities such as tablespace backups and restores.

Datasheet Issue: April 2009 BrightStor ARCserve Backup r11.5 for Linux Page 2 / 4

Multiplexing Capabilities

Multiplexing reduces the “backup window” by enabling
multiple jobs to write to the same media simultaneously.
This allows to back up data without impacting the server or
application and to make efficient use of tape
libraries and media. You can create and send up to 32
backup jobs simultaneously.

Oracle 10g and Multistreaming Support

BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides full protection of the
new Oracle database and leverages the new Automatic
Storage Management (ASM) feature. It also supports
multistreaming jobs, allowing the use of multiple media
simultaneously while backing up or restoring Oracle
databases.

Dynamic Enumeration

File systems and database tablespaces can be
enumerated every time a scheduled backup job starts,
providing full protection for the server and its applications.

Multiple Storage Network and Media
Support

BrightStor ARCserve Backup is optimized for all storage
environments, including traditional direct-attached storage,
SANs and NDMP NAS devices.

Cross-Platform SAN Support

With BrightStor ARCserve Backup, multiple
platforms (such as Linux, UNIX and Windows) can share
tape libraries and other storage devices on a SAN without
the need to logically partition or zone the devices. This
reduces costs and increases manageability by allowing
multiple computing environments to share storage
resources on a SAN.

TAR and CPIO Support

BrightStor ARCserve Backup supports Quick File Access
(QFA) so that files created in TAR and CPIO formats can
be restored.

Integrated Backup to Disk

Backing up to disk allows the leverage of the high­performance and random access characteristics of disk
technology as an intermediate step between the primary
disk and tape device.

NDMP Support

You can back up to tape drives and libraries attached
directly to NAS devices. Three-way NDMP support
is also included.

Multiple NIC Support

Multiple NIC cards can be installed to create a separate
storage network without the costs associated with
deploying a SAN. This can help to avoid data bottlenecks,
reduce usage of networks running the business and
improve backup performance.

Small Library Support BrightStor

ARCserve Backup supports the use of a tape library with
one drive and unlimited slots without the need for
BrightStor®ARCserve® Backup Tape Library Option.

Off-Site Vaulting Integration

BrightStor ARCserve Backup is designed to play a key
role in a overall disaster recovery plan. It provides
advanced media management for Linux servers and
integrates smoothly with off-site vaulting provider (such as
Iron Mountain and others).

Ease-of-Deployment and-Administration

A web-based management interface allows remote,
centralized management of storage server expenses,
reduced operating errors and simplified administration.

Multiple Language Support

English, French, Italian, German and Spanish
versions of BrightStor ARCserve Backup are included on
the same CD, allowing global and multinational use.

Command Line Interface

You can run common backup and restore functions
directly from the command line, which allows you to include
these functions in batch files and invoke them from other
automation solutions, such as Unicenter®.

Access Control List (ACL) Support

ACLs that the administrator has set up can be backed up.
This provides more control over file and directory access
than the standard file system provides.

BrightStor® Portal Integration

Built-in BrightStor Portal technology allows to
centrally monitor and report on all your BrightStor
ARCserve Backup servers from one centralized console.

Extensive Reporting Capabilities

BrightStor ARCserve Backup includes predefined report
formats, including Real-Time Statistics, Recovery Report,
Media Usage, Shipping Content Report, Receiving Content
Report and others.

Improved Virus Protection

BrightStor ARCserve Backup provides complete
virus protection through integrated eTrust™ Antivirus
technology that scans the files and detects and cures
viruses as the files are backed up.

Enhanced Data Security

Advanced 3DES 128-bit data encryption helps ensure the
privacy and security of data transmitted between the
network and backup media. Tapes cannot be misused or
restored by users without the encryption key.

Support for the Most Common Linux Distributions

BrightStor ARCserve Backup meets the requirements of
the most popular Linux systems and provides protection for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Advanced Server,
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux Standard
Server, SuSE Linux Desktop, SuSE Linux
Professional, Turbolinux Enterprise Server, Turbolinux
Desktop, Miracle Linux, Red Flag, Kernel 2.4.1 to 2.4.24
and Kernel 2.6.

Cross-Release Integration

You can run multiple versions of BrightStor ARCserve
Backup for Linux simultaneously without compatibility
issues.