BRU Server for Mac

From TOLIS Group, Inc.:

BRU Server for Mac OS X is a native Macintosh backup software solution that protects critical information on client/server-based Mac OS X networks. Based on the ultra-reliable BRU engine, BRU Server for Mac OS X delivers the functionality and flexibility to meet your organization's data protection needs.

• Straightforward Installation - Many Functions Automated
• Graphical, Character-Based, and Command Line Management Consoles
• Flexible Disk Staging Provides Disk-to-Disk and Disk-to-Disk-to-tape Support
• Automatic Backup of Intermittently-Attached Systems (notebooks, etc.)
• Comprehensive Native Tape Device Support
• 100% Coverage of All Mac OS X Filesystem Attributes Including Resource Fork, Finder Information, and All UNIX Permissions
• Backups 100% Verified for Accuracy and Advanced, Leadership Logic Eliminates Most Aborted Restores
• Agents available for most popular operating systems - Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Irix, AIX, HP/UX, SCO, and more
• Three (3) Versions of BRU Server Provide Highly Scalable, Cost-Effective Backup to Meet Your Needs

Major Points:

• Native Mac OS X client/server backup software
• Supports Mac OS X and OS X Server 10.2 and newer (including 10.3.3)
• Supports disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, and disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategies
• Straightforward installation; client systems and tape devices are automatically recognized and configured
• Intuitive user interface that adheres to the Aqua interface standard provides point-and-click operation to the rich feature set
• Fully scriptable from the command line
• Character-based and graphical management consoles provide local and remote control without requiring additional products such as ARD" or Timbuktu"
• Headless backup and restore operations can be managed via telnet or ssh sessions
• Flexibility to define how the backup operation should be performed because very few sites have the same backup requirements

Performance

• Industry's shortest backup window (fully verified backups) by using Data Staging and out-of-band (Anytime Verify") data verification
• Low overhead allows multiple BRU processes to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously with very little impact on system performance
• Pulls data off Xserve RAID (2GB/Fibre) in excess of 130 MB/second
• The most modern tape drives can be streamed
• Intelligent cataloguing provides a powerful query capability to quickly recover select files contained on tape
• Client system backups are not interleaved, thereby further shortening the time to restore selected files

Reliability

• Ultra-reliable BRU" engine delivers industry-leading data protection reliability and ultimate restorability of the protected data
• Backups can be 100% verified without access to the original filesystems
• Anytime Verify and Inspect Mode backup verification options can be run as an out-of-band process, freeing up the server faster
• Broad compatibility - backups can be verified on a different system, and even on a different platform
• Backups can be committed to a disk staging area at primary storage subsystem performance levels - virtually eliminating perceived backup windows at the client system level
• Proven data restorability of BRU technology - corrupt data is reported, circumvented, and the restore continues unless the tape drive is physically unable to proceed
• Catalogs are written to tape in addition to the server HDD to provide enhanced availability to backup data should the server system HDD fail.

Functionality

• Highly scalable
• Protects data on systems intermittently-attached to the network
• Provides broadest Mac OS X tape library support available
• Lights-out, automated backup operations are scheduled from the user interface
• Full support for mach-o or CFM single file binaries and their resource fork and finder information, as well as full UNIX-based compatibility
• Handles files and permissions skipped by other Mac OS X backup utilities
• Properly backs up so-called "open files" under Mac OS X
• Full support of case sensitivity under the new Panther HFS+ filesystem
• Fully compatible with Panther's FileVault feature
• Single archives of any size can be created
• There is no limitation to the size of the catalogs
• Data can be restored from any BRU backup data set without dependence on any special files contained on the server hard disk
• Transport layer agnostic - whether Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless LAN, etc.
• Supports Multiple drives AND multiple libraries without additional drivers or licenses
• Provides data backup and restore services within NAS, SAN and wireless environments
• QFA (Quick File Access) provides fast access to files contained on tape
• Client system data is not interleaved with other client system data
• Client-side data encryption provides secure communication between client systems and the server
• Network traffic data compression is configurable and can provide better utilization of available network bandwidth
• Pre and post scripts may be run on a client system to freeze the state of a database running on that machine or export its state to an intermediate file
• Files and directories can be excluded from the backup from the client system (excluding mp3 files, for example)
• E-mail notification of all operations including interact requirements and job status
• Server is localization friendly