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UltraBac - Backup & Disaster Recovery
* Bare Metal Recovery
* Business Continuity
* Continuous Protection
* Server Failover
VERSION 9.X New Features
UBDR Gold raises the bar in disaster recovery. UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) Gold uses snapshot (image) based backup and disaster recovery technology to provide lightning fast physical or virtual restores. The software works with every Windows server or workstation, and can be used to perform dissimilar hardware restores. UBDR Gold uses UltraBac’s ability to perform live image backups, along with a WinPE boot CD or USB key, to restore one or more disk partitions - even to a larger capacity disk drive right out of the box. UltraBac’s Locked File Backup Agent is also integrated with UBDR Gold to ensure open files are backed up safely during the image process. UBDR Gold can be licensed for independent, stand-alone use, or it can be fully integrated with UltraBac’s regular file-by-file backup and restore software.
UBDR Gold provides customers all the features of UBDR Pro along with the ability to perform virtual based disaster recoveries using either VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 host machines. Optional agents for TSM, SFTP/FTP, and media libraries are also offered with UBDR Gold. Another strategic feature of Gold is its ability to cold boot a machine and perform image or file based backups to literally every type of storage device: SAN, NAS, UNC path, local disk, TSM, SFTP/FTP, USB/FireWire, local/remote tape devices, and media libraries. This means an administrator can boot a failed machine and safely back up data partitions before allowing a technician access to data that could be irretrievably lost during the repair effort.
Continuous Data Protection. With the introduction of UBDR Gold’s latest technology, Continuous Image Protection (CIP)™, the software continues to add to its first to market feature list. CIP is a form of continuous data protection (CDP) with a new innovation: unlike standard image backups which run on a periodic basis, UBDR Gold’s CIP functionality continuously monitors all new blocks written to a protected disk partition and backs up these changes in near real-time. Utilizing traditional image backups, when a failure occurs you might be restoring a static image that could be up to 23 hours old. With CIP installed, your system can be brought back to a point-in-time only minutes, even seconds, old.
True dissimilar hardware capability. Perform dissimilar hardware restores with UBDR Gold’s physical-to-physical (P2P) disaster recovery feature. This means, for example, if a Compaq DL380 G3 server fails, a backed up OS image can be restored to a Dell PowerEdge 2950 and successfully booted.
UltraBac Software announced UBDR Gold’s ability to create VMware ESX and/or GSX Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) files in one simultaneous operation while backing up a live system. Creating ESX and GSX VMDK files during a regular image backup is a first in the industry. This greatly simplifies a disaster recovery by eliminating the conversion required by a typical physical-to-virtual (P2V) operation. This new functionality will be launched, along with a user friendly Virtual Consolidated Backup (VCB) Agent.
Utilizing UBDR Gold, an administrator can create a single backup job for an image file, an ESX VMDK file, and/or a GSX VMDK file. If VMDK files are chosen, they can be automatically uploaded via a set’s backup path. Since a VMDK file has already been created by a backup, a P2V disaster recovery operation can be performed in the absolute minimum of time. The VMDK files generated by a physical server’s UBDR Gold backups can be directly uploaded so they can be used immediately to boot when required. Another unique feature of this solution is that both differential and incremental backups can automatically update the base VMDK file so it is always up-to-date for any required P2V operation. To minimize disaster recovery time, an administrator would just create this “standby” virtual machine.
When a UBDR Gold protected server fails, an operator will now have two disaster recovery options: quickly recover the physical server using UBDR Gold’s image-based disaster recovery capability, or recover the failed server virtually for an even faster means of bringing the machine back online. To complete a virtual recovery, a user would only need to power up the standby virtual machine. This new functionality will empower a VMware administrator to inexpensively meet or surpass system uptime requirements by providing a directly mountable disaster recovery solution that is simply part of the daily backup regime.
UBDR Gold was the first Windows backup software to offer physical-to-virtual (P2V) based disaster recoveries. This allows organizations to recover a server and emulate it virtually 100 percent in as little as 15 minutes. To perform a P2V recovery, simply create as many new virtual environments as required on your host virtual server. Then use UBDR Gold to boot into the recovery wizard. Recovering to a virtual environment is automatic and requires no special setup, pre-configuration, or other considerations. Gold also supports virtual-to-virtual (V2V) and virtual-to-physical (V2P) recoveries, providing users with every available virtual disaster recovery option.
Integrating SFTP and FTP into disaster recovery was another first for UBDR Gold. With an SFTP/FTP recovery, an image can be restored from a LAN, WAN, or the Internet. UBDR Gold is also unique in that it directly supports local tape, local libraries, remote tape, and remote libraries. The major advantage of image backups to disk is lightning fast disaster recovery. Using tape however, still has many strategic benefits. UltraCopy (another first to market product), UltraBac Software’s optional disk-to-tape utility, offers inexpensive and redundant storage of unlimited numbers of backup copies for the ultimate in off-site data protection and disaster recovery.
Sophisticated customers also appreciate that UBDR Gold can be 100 percent scripted for both backups and restores. This means remote sites can be fully recovered automatically without any local administration. Unbootable servers can be quickly restored and brought back online. Instructing non-technical personnel through a difficult disaster recovery process is replaced with this seamless and completely automatic process.
UBDR Pro provides entry level disaster recovery functions for the small to medium business market:
UBDR Gold provides additional disaster recovery functions for more sophisticated users:
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