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New Microlite Beta Release
Sat Dec 4 19:01:02 2004 New Microlite
Beta Release
Posted by Tony Lawrence
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Referencing: http://www.microlite.com
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Microlite Beta Notification BackupEDGE 2.1 with Internet
Backups
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Test and Win!
Dear Friend of Microlite.
Internet Backups are here! BackupEDGE 2.1 is now in public beta, with a host of new benefits. This is your opportunity to examine the product before its commercial release and develop new storage strategies, while giving us the feedback we need to make it even more useful and reliable. As is our tradition, testers will get an opportunity to win free copies of the final product.
What if you could:
* Consolidate all your server backups by sending them to a data center, eliminating the expense of local storage devices?
* Become a backup data center for your clients, stores, etc.?
* Use any Network Attached Storage (/NAS/) device from any vendor to reduce backup windows and consolidate archives?
* Create your own inexpensive storage server?
* Have two servers backup to each other for redundancy, over your Intranet or the Internet?
* Create a ring topology, allowing each server to store archives to another server?
* Backup multiple servers to the same storage device concurrently?
* Increase the frequency of data protection. Perform multiple differential/incremental backups per day?
* Combine traditional media, NAS, Internet backups as desired?
* Lower the cost of individual servers by eliminating tape drives completely?
Our revolutionary new Transparent Media(TM) technology makes it all possible. It turns any server or appliance on the Internet (or Intranet) into a full-featured backup, restore and disaster recovery device. Full-featured means we've given network backups the same set of capabilities afforded by locally attached storage devices, including...
* Backup / Verify / Restore of entire systems or parts of systems (called Domains).
* Instant File Restore(TM), allowing access to individual files or directories on remote archives within seconds.
* Full Security with optional encryption of the network link, archive contents, or both.
* Disaster Recovery access to remote archives.
What's the Magic?
BackupEDGE 2.1 builds a full-featured, high-performance, high security ftp client directly into the backup engine. This allows any directory/folder on virtually any system or appliance equipped with an ftp server to act as a standard storage "Resource" for BackupEDGE. The system/appliance acting as the storage server...
* Does not need to have a copy of BackupEDGE installed.
* Can be running UNIX, Linux, Windows or even an embedded OS, as long as it has an ftp server.
* Can have any type of filesystem. Our Transparent Media technology automatically segments archives as necessary, eliminating the 2GB limitation associated with "file" archives on some operating systems, including SCO OpenServer 5.
* Can have virtually any type of ftp server. Modern ftp servers include ftps, a secure ftp transport allowing encrypted transmissions. BackupEDGE can use ftps with the addition of the Encryption License. Note that the Encryption License also allows the archive itself to be encrypted at the remote site, which is perfect for complying with data security regulations and when dealing with third-party data centers.
* Does not need to have Samba/NFS type mount access to the system being backed up. These impose performance penalties, compromise security and are a nightmare when it comes to disaster recovery.
Building ftp directly into the backup engine increases the reliability of the data stream and eliminates "store and forward" backups that take extra disk space and add complexity. With 5,000 character pathnames, state-of-the-art compression, world-class encryption and three-way integrity checking, the exclusive BackupEDGE engine has been engineered with all of the proper infrastructure for NAS/intranet/internet backups.
Additional Features.
* "Volume Size" to a remote backup resource means storage quota. BackupEDGE will not use more than its assigned space limit.
* Advanced archive strategy. BackupEDGE utilizes a strategy similar to slots in a tape library to establish archive names and provide a rotation strategy.
* Any restore, including a disaster recovery, displays a list of archives on the storage server and prompts for the appropriate archive.
Extra Benefits.
The engineering work necessary to build this functionality has some additional side benefits...
* Removable hard drives, flash drives and dedicated directories are now functional as valid storage devices, subject to some limitations designed to ensure that they are not accidentally erased as part of the automated disaster recovery process.
* Multi-volume backups of any media type now have Fast File Restore(TM) / Instant File Restore(TM) capability.
Summary.
* Tape drives, optical media, REV drives, remote archives, archives to removable storage. BackupEDGE now treats them all identically. No functionality is lost; no compromises are made, when changing storage strategies.
* New opportunities are afforded for heterogeneous environments. Choose the storage strategy or combination of strategies that best fits the needs of the client, at the lowest possible cost.
* Network attached storage is about become a lot more useful in the UNIX and Linux space, and a lot more secure.
HELP US MAKE IT BETTER - WIN FREE SOFTWARE
We're looking for maximum feedback on the new features in this product. Therefore, the first tester to bring to our attention ANY major bug will win a free copy of the final shipping product, including the encryption license.
We'll post the winners on the beta test site so everyone knows who was first and won the prize for any particular bug.
Reports of spelling errors, minor cosmetics, documentation issues etc. probably won't win a free copy, but we'll still be very grateful.
How To Test The Product
* Browse to http://www.microlite.com/beta
* Download and read the Release Notes (PDF).
* Register to receive the beta distribution.
* You'll be emailed a URL for downloading.
* Bookmark the URL for return visits.
Information about beta refreshes, bug fixes, workarounds, etc. will be sent only to those registering. All feedback on BackupEDGE 2.1 BETA should be sent to: beta@microlite.com
When shipments commence, BackupEDGE 2.1 will be a no-charge update for BackupEDGE 2.0.x registered owners, and a great opportunity to upgrade users of our older 1.x products, as well as competing products, since BackupEDGE competitive upgrade pricing is generally less expensive than most other vendors' standard upgrade.
Best regards,
Tom
D. Thomas Podnar
President
Microlite Corporation
http://www.microlite.com
2315 Mill Street
Aliquippa PA 15001-2228 USA
888-257-3343 724-375-6711
724-375-6908 Fax
Developers of BackupDGE
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---December 5, 2004
Sounds like a product we need. I have many servers that need backup, and I do not wish to have a locally attached drive. Currently, I write small shell scripts that use tar, and gzip compression, and transfer those files to the master backup server over NFS. It looks like this could simplify that a bit.
Once thing I wish Microlite would do, is enhance their Web Based client for restoring files off a tape. I would like to be able to teach anyone in our organization to be able to restore a file from tape, so if I am gone, they would be able to do this in my abscence. The new Java utility is a step in the right direction, but I have a feeling the interface was designed by engineers, for engineers. I would like the "marketing" type of people be able to use it with ease.
- Bruce Garlock
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