ZERODOWNTIME® Online

The most advanced system backup solution for HP3000 computers, BACKUP+/iX offers these features:

• Data Entryption
• Online Backups
• Disk To Disk Store
• Full, Partial, Interim And Incremental Options
• Parallel Restore
• Data Compression Options Of 2:1; 2.5:1; 4:1
• Tape Manager & Librarian (TML)
• Restore Wizard
• Delta Backup™
• Orbit Library Manager OLM Module
• Append
• Validate
• Image Database Backup And Restore
• Scan
• File Buffer
• Defragmentation

DATA ENCRYPTION

Backups may be password-protected or encrypted to protect data on tapes from being read by unauthorized users. For many years BACKUP+/iX has offered both a proprietary encryption method and the 64-bit Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm. The encryption phrase (or keyword) is clear readable text (unencrypted by itself) and identical on store and restore. For 2007 the 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with Cipher Block Chaining Mode (CBC) has been released.

ZERODOWNTIME®

(ZDT) backup – conduct an online, Zero-Downtime backup while guaranteeing Full Logical Integrity of the data.

DISK TO DISK STORE

Disk backups are faster than backups to tape, and provide the capability to perform a system backup without the presence of an operator to handle tapes. Files can be restored directly from the disk, and can be dumped to tape at any time, creating a copy of the disk backup that can then be used itself in a restore.

FULL, PARTIAL, INTERIM AND INCREMENTAL OPTIONS

In addition to full and partial backup cycles, other types of backups can be utilized on either a regular, periodic, or one-time basis. Some examples of such special backup cycles include storing and purging old files, distributing certain files to other sites within a company, mid-day backups of a particularly critical database, periodic storage of static files. Using BACKUP's powerful file selection capabilities, files may be selected by wildcard, exclusion, creations date, last access date, last modification date, and/or file type.

PARALLEL RESTORE

Restoring from multiple backup devices in parallel speeds up overall restore performance.

DATA COMPRESSION OPTIONS OF 2:1; 2.5:1; 4:1

Compression reduces the amount of data transferred to tape or disk. This speeds up overall performance, and aids in achieving unattended backups by possibly reducing the number of tapes required. Greater compression and CPU utilization generally results from using the higher-numbered compression methods. Testing may be needed to determine the best compression algorithm.

TAPE MANAGER & LIBRARIAN (TML)

Automates many manual functions and manages backups and the tape library, including extensive reports and backup statistics.

RESTORE WIZARD

Permits files to be restored with no knowledge of which backups or tapes contain the files. (Restore Wizard is a part of TML).

DELTA BACKUP™

An optional feature that reduces the time and tapes required for partial backups, by up to 80%.

ORBiT LIBRARY MANAGER (OLM)

An optional feature that provides direct support for automated tape libraries and auto-changers.

APPEND

Provides the capability to add a new backup to an existing tape backup set, automating the entire backup process for worry-free data protection by letting users put an entire weeks backups on a single tape.

VALIDATE

IMAGE DATABASE BACKUP AND RESTORE

IMAGE databases may be backed up using conventional STORE, but transaction logging recovery requires that three fields in the database root file - the store date, store time, and "dirty" bit fields - be updated to ensure recoverability by MPE/iX's DBRECOV program. By specifying the DBSTORE option of the STORE command, the files that comprise a database, including the root file, jumbo datasets, and third-party index (TPI) files, are stored. The root files of all databases are also updated as required for recoverability. Additionally, the DBSTORE option automatically forces a backup of all files that comprise the database if the root file is selected for store. This includes dataset files that were not modified and would otherwise be excluded by date restriction.

SCAN

BACKUP's secondary file scan is able to determine the file attributes at the completion of the backup as well as properly handle dynamic files that have been created, purged, renamed, etc., during the backup.

FILE BUFFER

Aids in unattended backups by acting as a buffer to the tape drive. The result is that when the mounted volumes are full, the remaining data to be stored is written into the file buffer. Once the backed up files have been fully stored into the file buffer, they are released for normal user access. The data remaining in the file buffer is automatically written to tape when the next tape volume(s) are mounted.

DEFRAGMENTATION

Backup+/iX is able to perform disk defragmentation during restore, whereby files are reallocated on restore into larger pieces and small chunks of disk space are recombined into larger pieces.