BRU Server Expanded Highlights

BRU technology has been supporting Unix customers for over 21 years, and the experience gained is incorporated into BRU Server. The following information highlights the robustness of BRU Server.

Operational

Graphical User Interfaces that deliver an intuitive user experience on Mac OS X, Linux, Windows and Solaris
Clearly defined relationship between Full, Base Job backup definitions and the associated Incremental or Differential backup jobs
Scheduling mechanism with easy access to the defined schedules
Client-level user initiated backup
Client-level user initiated restore
Client-level update of IP addresses for DHCP environments
Access and display of archives and tapes known within the BRU Server environment
Job summary e-mail reporting with full disclosure of each job available through the job history database
Supports Mac OS X and OS X Server 10.4 and newer
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
Fully scriptable from the command line
Character-based and graphical management consoles provide local and remote control
Headless backup and restore operations can be managed via telnet or ssh sessions
Flexible backup job definitions because very few sites have the same backup requirements.
Support for Solid State Disks

Performance

High performance tape drive I/O support provides the highest levels of throughput to high-performance devices such as LTO, SAIT, SDLT, and others.
Industry's shortest backup window (fully verified backups) by using Disk Staging and BRU Server's zero impact verify (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 120 MB/second.
Intelligent cataloguing provides a powerful query capability to quickly recover select files contained in archives.
Client system backups are not interleaved, thereby further shortening the time to restore selected files.

Reliability

Ultra-reliable BRU™ engine delivers unparalleled data protection reliability and restorability of the protected data
Backups can be 100% verified without access to the original file systems, either immediately after a backup or even years later
Anytime Verify™ and Inspect Mode backup verification options can be run as a zero impact process, freeing up the client systems faster.
Broad compatibility - backups can be verified and restored 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 copied to tape in addition to the server HDD to provide enhanced availability to backup data should the server system HDD fail.

Functionality

Full native compatibility with Apple's Xsan, ADIC's StorNet, and other distributed file systemsfor both backup, and as the disk stage for disk-to-disk (D2D) backup operations
No special tape emulation layer required, however, BRU Server is fully compatible with all VTL implementations.
Live backup of databases and services such as Oracle, Exchange, and Outlook running on Windows client systems using the BRU Server Open File Manager for Windows®.
Full print (printer or PDF) support of all database information
Scalability limited only by the available network bandwidth
Broadest Mac OS X tape library support available
Lights-out, automated backup operations are easily scheduled from the graphical user interface
Handles files and permissions skipped by other Mac OS X backup utilities
Full support of ACLs and EAs.
Properly backs up so-called "open files" under Mac OS X
Full support of case sensitivity under the HFS+ file system
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, SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless LAN, etc.
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.