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bruAPP
Product Characteristics
The bruAPP is a complete, self-contained data backup and restore system appliance. Everything
needed to comprise a self-contained network backup system is contained within the appliance hardware.
Physical
- Available in tower, 1U, and 2U, rackmount chassis configurations
- Robust BRU Server disk stage (D2D) comprised of up to 12 high-performance,
exchangeable, Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk drives
- VXA-3 and LTO-2 half-height tape drives are available in select models (other tape technology
can be quoted upon request)
- Dual gigabit Ethernet ports
- Integrated Host Bus Adapters to support external SCSI or Fibre Channel tape libraries (optional)
Operational
- Backup and restore support for almost any networked computing environment
- Works within NAS, SAN, and wireless environments
- Server installation takes less than 5 minutes (disk-to-disk) - implementing tape library technology
takes a little longer
- Graphical, character-based, and command line management consoles
- Supports many different backup schedule types - full / differential / incremental, grandfather /
father / son, etc.
- Supports all important operating system platform file attributes
- Supports D2D and D2D2T backup and restore strategies
- True Zero Impact design on any Server on the network
- Data restore is a one step process - regardless of the data's location on the disk stage or tape
- BRU Server disk stage scalability limited only by the capacity of currently tested and approved hard
drives
- Number of client systems supported by a single bruAPP is limited only by available network bandwidth
- Client system licenses (agents) do not differentiate between network Servers, desk side systems,
or laptops - one system; one license
- Rails are available to mount tower cases in a rackmount stand, or tower can be placed on its side
on a rackmount shelf.
Reliability
- Tested and proven quality components used throughout
- A dedicated, complete backup and restore system not dependent on any network system resources
- Proven reliability of BRU software technology - errors can be circumvented to continue restores that
would cause other backup applications to abort
- Network Server operating system upgrades do not impact bruAPP operation
- Catalogs are stored on the archive media in addition to the server drive to allow simple re-creation
of the backup records should the bruAPP HDD fail
- AES 256-bit encryption assures secure communication between client systems and bruAPP
Functionality
- Disk stage and tape archives can be 100% verified for accuracy without continued access to the original
data
- Native support of SCSI and Fibre-Channel attached tape libraries, regardless of the number of tape
drives or tape slots
- Can write to multiple tape drives and tape libraries simultaneously
- Drive Autobalancing™ eliminates overuse of any particular drive within a multi-drive library
- Uses TapeAlert™ to monitor, report, and correct tape and library issues
- Tape bar code reader support
- Pre and post job execution scripts may be run on a client system to enable support for nearly any
type of database or other live environment
- Network traffic data compression is configurable and can provide better utilization of available
network bandwidth
Performance
- The bruAPP delivers the shortest, fully verified, backup window in the industry
- The BRU Server agents require very limited system resources allowing client system backups to occur
while the systems are in use, client system backups to the disk stage are simultaneously and asynchronous.
- Following an initial full backup of a client system, the subsequent incremental or differential backups
to the disk stage are virtually transparent to the user in both time and system load
- Upstaging from disk stage to tape occurs without the intervention of client systems and zero impact
is incurred on network bandwidth or any other system/server on the network
- Thanks to the highly tuned custom bruAPP/OS and high performance hardware components, the bruAPP
can take full advantage of the performance and capacity provided by the latest tape drive technologies
- Multiple backup streams from client systems to the disk stage can occur simultaneously - further
reducing your backup window.
- Client system backups are not interleaved, thereby further shortening the time to restore selected
files and ensuring the reliability of the stored data
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