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TOLIS Group, Inc.
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AQUA INTERFACE AND PROVEN BRU TECHNOLOGY COMBINED TO DELIVER RELIABLE, EASY TO ADMINISTER MAC OS X BACKUP

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona - November 5, 2003 - TOLIS Group today announces the availability of BRU™ for Mac OS X that delivers the famed reliability of BRU data backup and restore technology while being administered from a user-friendly graphical interface. The primary market for BRU for Mac OS X is commercial Xserve, G4 and G5 users. Special migration pricing is also being announced for users of Dantz® Retrospect®.

Macintosh users will appreciate the graphical interface that provides point and click access to all of BRU's robust features while adhering to the Aqua interface standard. For advanced users, BRU for Mac OS X is also fully scriptable from the command line to customize operation by using the familiar Unix scripting tools (sh, cron, at, etc.).

"Apple's Mac OS X operating system has quickly proven to be a very creditable implementation of Unix. Grounded in Unix, BRU's support of OS X is a natural extension of our heritage," said Tim Jones, president of TOLIS Group. "Adding the support for Macintosh specific extensions was a straightforward expansion of BRU's robust and portable code base. BRU for Mac OS X provides the highest level of Unix integration and reliability of any Macintosh backup product available while providing the expected Apple look-and-feel user interface experience."

The street buzz about BRU for Mac OS X:

"As the authors of The Backup Book Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center, we can tell you there is no better backup product today for the Xserve and Xserve RAID than BRU for Mac OS X," says Dorian Cougias, CEO of Network Frontiers.

"It's evident that TOLIS understands Mac OS X, said Don Tillman, Computer Engineer for the Department of Psychology at Wright State University. "This application is robust, amazingly fast and is very affordable."

"BRU for Mac OS X brings industrial-strength backup to Macintosh," according to Colin Doll, president of VAST-IT. "The product delivers on its reputation for reliability, and is loaded with the functionality needed to protect data."

BRU for Mac OS X provides full backup and recovery of Mac OS X filesystems. On those OS X systems that also contain old style, single file binary files, BRU for Mac OS X will transparently backup and restore these files as well. Additionally, BRU for Mac OS X supports 64-bit filesystems and will accurately back up and recover files of any size in full compatibility with Apple's HFS+ filesystem. BRU for Mac OS X can create single archives greater than 1 TB, and there is no catalog size limitation.

BRU provides 100% coverage of all aspects of the OS X filesystems including Resource Fork and Finder Information as well as all Unix permissions.

Accurate backups are key to successful restores. BRU for Mac OS X implements TOLIS' unique archive format in concert with check summing calculations to provide a mechanism that verifies the 100% accuracy of each backup. BRU for Mac OS X accounts for each and every bit of data processed in the backup stream for placement on the backup media.

The unique characteristics of the BRU logical data format allow the backup to be verified in an out-of-band process, thereby returning the system to user availability 50%, or more, faster than other backup tools. Access to the system disk, or disk farm, is not required to verify the backup. Backups can be also verified on a different system, and even under a different BRU-supported operating system.

Tapes created with BRU for Mac are fully compatible with all current versions of BRU across all platforms. BRU for Mac OS X provides backward compatibility with archives created by previous versions of BRU all the way back to BRU 6.1, released in 1987.

BRU for Mac OS X returns the most data of any backup tool. When corrupt archive data is detected, rather than aborting the restore like other tools, BRU for MAC OS X reports the location, advances the media until the next good BRU header is found and continues the recovery. Additionally, there is no dependence on any special files (i.e. Storage Sets) contained on the system hard disk in order to recover data.

BRU for Mac OS X supports SCSI/Fibre-Channel/USB/Firewire tape drives and SCSI/Fibre Channel tape libraries. No special device drivers are required, and there is no limit to the number of supported tape drives within a library or number of tape slots. BRU for Mac OS X employs TOLIS' unique tapectl™ and libctl™ tools that provide tape device and tape library control that is transparent to the user.

BRU for Mac OS X can write multiple, simultaneous, non-interleaved data streams to multiple tape devices to achieve incredibly fast throughput. BRU for Mac OS X utilizes the variable block mode of modern tape drives to allow them to deliver their maximum performance. Additionally, BRU's very low overhead allows the streaming of the most modern tape technology without bogging-down system resources. BRU for Mac OS X can process a single stream of data coming off an Xserve filesystem in excess of 110 MBPS.

BRU for Mac OS X works with removable disk technology, tape, MO, Zip™ and will also write to disk-files.

Operationally, BRU for Mac OS X provides full support of Unix's security and access properties, as well as the standard Macintosh user model, so users can configure systems to the security level of choice. To optimize system uptime while minimizing backup downtime, BRU for Mac OS X supports incremental and differential backups as well as full system backups. Remote volumes can be mounted and backed-up via AFP, SMB, NFS and other protocols. BRU for Mac OS X supports Mac OS 10.2 and newer.

BRU for Mac OS X is available immediately, and is priced at $499. TOLIS Group provides 30 days of free expert technical support, and cost-effective extended support plans are available. BRU for Mac OS X is available from TOLIS Group directly and through select Resellers.

A competitive upgrade program is available to users through January 31, 2004. During this 90-day period from product launch, BRU for Mac OS X will be priced at $250 for customers that provide a photo static copy of their Dantz® Retrospect® installation CD label when ordering. Included also is a special $199 price (normally $265) for one year of expert TOLIS technical support that includes unlimited telephone support and free updates

ABOUT TOLIS GROUP, INC.

TOLIS Group Inc. is a closely held corporation located in Scottsdale, Arizona. It is TOLIS's mission to provide leading-edge products to OEMs and end-users that are effective, reliable, and of excellent value for computer users. Product focus centers on data protection solutions, and our service marks of "Software You Can Trust℠" and "Backup You Can Trust℠" guide our business.

The majority of TOLIS products are based on the BRU backup engine, an elegant piece of software first developed in 1985 that has been continually updated and remains at the forefront of backup technology leadership to this day. Numerous product excellence awards have recognized BRU.

TOLIS is also the sponsor of the Tape Device Certification Program. Contact the TOLIS Group at PH: 480-505-0488, FAX: 480-505-0492 E-mail: , or visit TOLIS on the Web.

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