As Linux scales into the enterprise, EST is scaling our BRU Backup & Restore Utility to provide continued "Backup You Can TrustSM" for large system and network installations. BRU-Pro will soon be available to support the backup requirements of large system networks, and systems requiring the secure backup of very large amounts of data.
The fundamentals of backup hold-true regardless of system size. Backups must be accurate to assure successful restores should they be needed, and executed in a timely fashion given today's shrinking backup windows. The data-verified backups that have made BRU the standard for reliability will be continued in BRU-Pro. Too, the ability to verify backups off-line to optimize system up-time will be continued. Bottom line, when you back up your system with BRU-Pro, you are assured the peace-of-mind knowing that your data is accurately backed-up and can be successfully restored.
Scaling into the enterprise means significantly larger amounts of data must be managed. The data manipulation/management schemes of the past are inadequate to support the explosive growth in system data now being realized. Yesterday, specialized applications such as the telemetry requirements at NASA begged the need to manage terabytes of information. Today, terabyte capacity points are common within large business. The data verification and compression algorithms employed in BRU-Pro have been upgraded to manage the volume of data as well as its physical per file size.
BRU Backup & Restore Utility supports libraries today, but the expertise of a system administrator to write scripts managing the process is required. BRU-Pro will provide full library support without the need to develop these scripts. To additionally manage the growth of data, BRU-Pro will incorporate a database to provide fast file access, eliminating the time-consuming task of searching tapes to access specific files.
To support heterogeneous topologies, Linux, Free BSD, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Novell and other flavors of Unix clients will be available to push data to BRU-Pro residing on the server. Given the proprietary nature of data today, BRU-Pro incorporates encryption algorithms that support the newest industry standards to assure safe transmission from remote clients. These security levels will be administrator definable and the backup process can even be managed from a Web interface.
BRU-Pro continues to afford ease of use while providing heightened functionality through its automatic client recognition and configuration capability as well.
From unattended, lights-out backup, to support of multiple simultaneous data streams, to playing beautifully with any operating system compatible backup device, BRU-Pro will be the backup software solution of choice, and at a most aggressive price point.