Full listing of the latest announcements from TOLIS Group, Inc.

BRU LE v1.3.6 Released

Hi Folks,

As an extension to the mail support that was fixed in BRU LE 1.3.5, many of you asked to extend the support of SMTP mail transmissions through an ISP or other third party SMTP server by adding the ability to specify a non-standard SMTP port.  This has been added to BRU LE 1.3.6.

You may download the update to BRU LE from the standard download page.

From the release notes:

• New Feature: BRU LE 1.3.6 now fully supports SMTP authenticated mail operations in both manual and scheduled backups.  This allows you to provide port information for environments when you need to contact your SMTP server on a port other than the default of port 25 - such as in environments where your ISP has blocked port 25 in an attempt to prevent SpamBOTS from sending mail directly.

Also, since a few of you have asked, when you save a mail password for SMTP authentication, it is saved in an encrypted format.

Thanks for using BRU LE!

Announced: Aug 7, 2008

BRU LE v1.3.5 Released

Hi Folks,

We've just posted the next update for BRU LE - version 1.3.5.

This update is free for all BRU LE for OS X 1.3 users.

You may download the BRU LE 1.3. update from the BRU Demo page.

We sincerely appreciate the feedback that we've received and look forward to continuing to improve BRU LE for our customers.

Thanks for using BRU LE!

TOLIS Group, Inc.

Updates in BRU LE 1.3.5:

• Fixed an issue with scheduled jobs not sending emails. If you have current scheduled jobs saved, please select them, add the proper email addresses on the Schedule panel and re-save them.
• Fixed an issue that caused the secondary email addresses assigned on the main backup panel (versus the Preferences) to not be saved when a job definition was saved.
• Fixed an issue with scheduled jobs that could result in the wrong archive being verified on appended tape backups.
• Fixed an issue with tape positioning for verify or restore when the tape block count exceeded approximately 1 million blocks.

Announced: Jul 30, 2008

BRU LE v1.3.4 Released

Hi Folks,

We've just posted the next update for BRU LE - version 1.3.4. While this update is mainly aimed at resolving issues reported by tape users, it is a recommended update for all users.

This update is free for all BRU LE for OS X 1.3 users.

As a separate note, for customers using OS X Leopard 10.5.0 - 10.5.2, we strongly urge you to update your systems to 10.5.3. While there are no specific improvements from the BRU LE perspective, 10.5.3 fixes a large number of usability issues that existed in the earlier versions of OS X 10.5.

You may download the BRU LE 1.3.4 update from the BRU Demo page.

We sincerely appreciate the feedback that we've received and look forward to continuing to improve BRU LE for our customers.

Thanks for using BRU LE!

TOLIS Group, Inc.

Updates in BRU LE 1.3.4:

• Fixed an issue that prevented the restore process from prompting for the second and further tapes in a multi-tape restore.
• Fixed an issue that would cause a restore from an appended archive to fail because the tape was being repositioned to block 0 instead of the actual block that contained the data that was selected for restore. This usually only occurred if the first backup set on the tape was a small backup set of less than 64M.
• Fixed an issue that could cause importing unknown BRU LE tapes to fail if there was an archive that didn't have a matching catalog set on the tape.
• Fixed an issue with the postflight installer script that could overwrite the contents of the root user's crontab.
• Fixed a potential file overwrite condition in the crontab BRU scheduler entry creation.
• Fixed an issue that allowed manual entry of non-5 minute increments in the schedule start times.
• Fixed a block position offset error in the BRU engine. The BRU version has been updated to 17.1 build 1.16.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Restore Selection listbox to be minimized after a backup is completed. The listbox would be redisplayed if you drag the splitter control that was then positioned at the bottom of the panel back upwards.

Posted: Jun 25, 2008

BRU Server Supports Windows Server 2008

We are pleased to announce that BRU Server supports Windows Server 2008 systems as a client system on the network.  To BRU Server, any server-class system is treated as a node or seat, and no costly server-class licenses are required.

There is a small modification to Windows Server 2008 that needs to be done to be able to launch the BRU Server Agent Config application. The instructions to setup BRU Server Agent for Windows Server 2008 are in Knowledge Base article # 155.

Posted: Apr 30, 2008

BRU LE 1.3.3 Released

An issue has been reported with the placement of disk-based archives created using the BRU LE's QuickBackup view.  The archive file was written into the default backup path (in Preferences) regardless of the path applied in the filename field.  Normally, you can simply enter a file name without a path and the file is written into your default path preference.  However, if you supply a fully qualified path - such as "/Volumes/Firewire 1/Backups/MySpecialBackup" - the file would be written into the default path instead of the supplied path.  This issue does not affect your backups if you use the Advanced view or perform backups via a scheduled job.

• If you backup to disk using the QuickBackup view method, this is a mandatory update.
• If you backup to disk using the Advanced view or via scheduled operations, this update is suggested.
• If you backup to tape, as there is no impact on tape backups, this update is optional.

Visit the BRU LE product page for more information.

Posted: Mar 24, 2008

BRU LE 1.3.2 Released

We are pleased to announce that BRU LE 1.3.2 is now available. The redesigned primary interface released in 1.3.1 delivers significantly improved workflow and a more concise method for day-to-day backup operations is achieved through the improved QuickBackup option.

The BRU I/O engine has been updated to 17.1 variant 0.1.15 for use on Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 systems to enable the complete and proper processing of Access Control Lists (ACL's) and Extended Attributes (EA's). The 17.1 engine is now used on 10.3.9 systems.

Version 1.3.2 delivers improved user interfaced display compatibility with Leopard systems, and the load speed of the restore list on larger archives has been dramatically increased.

Visit the BRU LE product page for more information.

Posted: Mar 5, 2008

BRU 17.1 Available for FreeBSD 7.x

Support for FreeBSD 7.x is now available for x86 and x86_64 systems running BRU Desktop or BRU Workstation v17.0.  Users of BRU v16.0 and prior are not able to update from 16.0 to 17.1 and should contact BRU Sales for upgrade options.

Posted: Feb 28, 2008

BRU LE 1.3.1 Released

We are pleased to announce that BRU LE 1.3.1 is now available. The redesigned primary interface delivers significantly improved workflow and a more concise method for day-to-day backup operations is achieved through the improved QuickBackup option.

The BRU I/O engine has been updated to 17.1 for use on Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 systems to enable the complete and proper processing of Access Control Lists (ACL's) and Extended Attributes (EA's).  The 17.0 engine is still used on 10.3.9 systems.

Version 1.3.1 delivers improved user interfaced display compatibility with Leopard systems, and the load speed of the restore list on larger archives has been dramatically increased.

Additional improvements have also been made to the schedule deletion process and the ability to delete an archive entry on the restore panel has been added.

In addition to enhancements, a number of our standing and intermittent issues have been fixed as well.

View the ReadME for a complete list of updates and changes.

Posted: Feb 15, 2008

Higher Capacity bruAPP Models - Same Price!

We are pleased to announce that bruAPP models that implemented 400GB hard disk drives, comprising the disk stage, now ship with 500GB drives.  The higher capacity drives are being supplied at no additional cost, and this change applies to the R1600 (1.6TB), R2000 (2.0TB), and R4000 (4.0TB) models.  Their disk stage capacities are now increased to 2.0TB, 2.5TB, and 5.0TB respectively.

To learn more about the TOLIS bruAPP, visit the product information page.

Posted: Feb 7, 2008

Apple 10.4.11 Resolves Backup Issues

It is our pleasure to inform you that Apple has released Mac OS X 10.4.11 client and server updates. This update fixes a large number of reported tape-based I/O issues as well as many other issues as described in the Apple release notes.

All Mac OS X 10.4.9 and 10.4.10 users should update their systems as soon as possible, as 10.4.9 and 10.4.10 are no longer supported operating systems with the BRU technology on Mac OS X.

If you have questions about BRU Server or BRU LE on Mac OS X concerning this update, please feel free to contact TOLIS Group Technical Support with any questions you may have.

If you have questions pertaining to the update itself, please contact Apple Support. You may retrieve the 10.4.11 update release notes at:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306297

Posted: Nov 15, 2007

BRU Support of Leopard

We are pleased to announce that our BRU Server™, BRU LE™, and bruCLONE™ solutions are Leopard compatible and have been fully tested. Purchases of new Macintosh 10.5 systems can be made with the confidence of knowing BRU is available to properly backup and restore systems.

Posted: Oct 26, 2007

TOLIS Group Committed to "Green"

To help conserve natural resources by influencing the adoption of "electronic license" purchases, TOLIS Group has implemented a surcharge when hardcopy product packaging is requested. BRU product and documentation downloads are small, the documentation is crisp and is easily navigable in electronic format - unlike other backup tools that require multiple volumes. Our achievable goal is to ship 97% "green product" by the end of 2008.

Posted: Oct 9, 2007

RONVER Systems announces alliance with the TOLIS Group, home of BRU for Mac OS X

TOLIS Group and RONVER Systems have signed the much anticipated contract for Belgium and the Netherlands for the complete line of BRU solutions.

BRU for Mac OS X is a native Macintosh backup software solution that protects critical information residing across an OS X-based client/server network. PowerPC and Intel systems, as well as Xsan are fully supported. BRU also supports many Unix based OS's like Linux, Solaris and even IBM Linux, IRIX and HP-UX.

"We welcome RONVER Systems as Distributor of our BRU™ backup solutions to supply the needs of Resellers supporting customers in Belgium and The Netherlands," said Tim Jones, president/CTO of TOLIS Group, Inc. "Our BRU technology, and RONVER's singular focus on storage, allows the delivery of solutions and expertise that remove the complexity organizations face today to protect their critical data."

Ronald Verhaeghe, RONVER CTO : "BRU is an excellent native solution for Mac OS X users and other Unix and Linux based OS's even IBM Linux, IRIX and HP-UX. Especially now that Xsan is taking off in our partners' solutions. Easy to install, good pricing and good affordable support. Our kind of solution...."

Posted: Jul 26, 2007

BRU Solutions Support VMWare, Parallels, Virtual Box, and Other Vitalization Technologies

With Vitalization becoming more and more prevalent in the IT realm, it's important to understand how your virtual machines and your backup process work together.

Posted: Jul 5, 2007

BRU Server Xsan Support Information Updated

Apple's Xsan filesystem allows Mac OS X Server users to implement very large filesystems while retaining the relative ease of management that they've come to expect from an Apple system management standpoint. BRU Server brings a similar ease of use to the backup Xsan environment.

Posted: Jul 5, 2007

bruCLONE v1.1.0 Update Released

bruCLONE v1.1.0 has been released. It fixes a problem with the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update as well as other bugs that have been reported. The update is available for download from the bruCLONE Update page.

Posted: Jul 3, 2007

BRU is HP "Integrity Ready”

HP has awarded TOLIS Group Integrity Ready status for three of our solutions: BRU 17.0 for HP-UX, BRU 17.0 Workstation for Linux, and BRU Server for Linux. The Integrity Series supports critical computing across organizations of all sizes.

Posted: Mar 22, 2007

BRU Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Following extensive testing of RHEL 5 during it's beta test cycle, we are pleased to announce our BRU Server and BRU 17.0 products for Linux support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Posted: Mar 19, 2007