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BRU 17.0 Features At-A-Glance
Exceptional Reliability
- Data Verification. BRU ensures that your backup is correct by verifying archives in two different
ways, using checksums or by performing a bit-by-bit comparison with the original file in contrast to
tar-based solutions.
- Anytime Verify™ allows you to re-verify your data at anytime.
- Error Detection and Recovery. BRU detects and recovers from most errors that occur while reading
or writing. Unlike other utilities that stop on errors, BRU makes several attempts to read and recover
the maximum amount of data from damaged archives.
- AUTOSCAN™ Verification. BRU will automatically scan each archive tape and verify it for errors
immediately after it is written. Customer-proven detection of problems caused by hardware or software
errors works like an "early warning system" to detect problems before they become serious-like a tape
drive that is just starting to fail.
- Sparse Files. BRU will properly backup and restore large sparse files.
- Long Pathnames. BRU will backup and restore files with pathnames up to 1023 characters long. This
is useful for networked systems or for file systems with deep directories. 100 characters is the limit
of other backup utilities.
- Automatic Execution Logging. Because backups are serious business, you want to know immediately if
anything went wrong. BRU automatically writes any warning/error messages to a special execution log
file. The file also contains time-stamps of when BRU started and stopped.
Smaller Network Support
- Network Backups. BRU supports many different network protocols, including NFS, SMB, and NetAtalk.
BRU also properly backs up filenames that include strange characters and spaces*.
- Remote Tape Drives. Write backup data across the network to a tape drive located on another machine*.
Complete Flexibility
- Supports 64-bit File systems
- Unattended Backups. A special background mode lets you schedule BRU to run under cron, allowing backups
to be performed overnight.
- Support For Any Type of Device. BRU is device-independent and works with any native OS supported
storage device. If your system can see it, BRU can write to it.
- Handles Special Files. BRU will backup and restore all types of files, including special device files,
links (symbolic and hard), pipes, empty directories - all the files that are skipped by utilities like
tar. BRU will backup and restore every file on your disk.
- Faster Crash Recovery. Since BRU will backup and restore all files, this saves time and makes it
easier to restore your system in the event of a crash.
- Protective File Restore. Restores files only from the backup tape that is newer - protects you by
NOT overwriting files that have been recently updated (unless you force it to overwrite all files).
- Easy Integration. Dozens of options and environment variables make it easy to include BRU as a shell
script or menu system. With BRU, you can do backups your way - exactly how you want to do them.
- Translate-on-Restore™. Rename or move files when restoring.
- Root-only Restore. Restores just the files in the root directory, excluding files from other file
systems.
- SmartRestore™. Restore active shared library and executable binary files without crashing the
system.
- Multiple Volume Archives. With BRU, archives can span more than one tape, allowing you to do backups
of any size.
- Faster Backups. BRU is "tunable" for peak performance, so you can run your tape drive at its maximum
rated speed.
- Back Up Live File systems. It's not necessary to go into single-user mode. You can backup all the
mounted file systems. or choose individual file systems.
- Incremental/Differential Backups. Sometimes you don't want to back up everything. You can save time
(and tape) by backing up only the files that have changed. Other options let you select by owner or
type of file.
- Raw Data Partitions. Backup and restore raw data partitions (often used by database programs like
Oracle).
- Select by Directory Depth. With this option, you can specify how many directory levels you want,
which enables you to backup or restore ONLY the files in a directory, but NOT the files in the directories
below it.
- Include/Exclude Files. You can direct BRU to include or exclude certain files or directories in a
backup (or restore). By specifying certain patterns (wildcard or regular expressions), you can perform
customized backups.
- Data Compression. BRU can save space on your archive tape by compressing data as part of the backup
operation. Files are usually compressed by 10% to 90% (depending on the type of data). Like all BRU
data, the compressed files are saved in a special error-detection format. Compression is done in memory
(no temporary disk space is used), so files of any size can be compressed. BRU speeds up the backup
by not attempting to compress files that are already compressed.
- Works with all tape drive formats, removable disk technology, disk-files, MO, DVD and more
Reliable Tape Management
- Tape Labeling. For easy identification, all tapes are automatically labeled with date/time information
when BRU writes to them. An optional label containing up to 63 characters can also be specified by
the user. To make sure the correct tape is used, label functions can also be used when restoring.
- Overwrite Protection. Protects against accidentally overwriting a recent backup tape (like the one
from last night).
Easy-to-Access Support
- Built-in Help Pages. Useful when you can't find the manual.
- Backup Assistance Hotline. If you do have problems, we're here to help. FREE for the first 30 days,
renewable in low-cost, one-year increments.
* NOT in BRU Desktop
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