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Highlights

  • Help provide continuous data protection and recovery management for Microsoft Windows and Linux servers, both locally and replicated to a DR site
  • Get applications and users back up and running within minutes following any data loss, while full data recovery is performed in the background
  • Help eliminate the need for traditional backup windows by continuously capturing data changes at the block level
  • Help reduce storage and bandwidth requirements with block-level incremental backup and integrated data deduplication
  • Schedule automated data transfers based on flexible, policy-based settings
  • Enable the recovery of any data asset from any Windows or Linux application, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 and SAP
  • Make the most effective use of your available storage and bandwidth through strategies such as data deduplication, bundling of small files and industry-standard compression
  • Integrate with existing tape backup applications, such as IBM TSM, to provide an intermediary disk-based layer for significantly faster backup and recovery capabilities.

Feature Benefits
Block-level incremental capture
  • Very low impact on application servers – ideal for VMs
  • Eliminates the need for backup windows
  • Superb performance with both large numbers of small files and for very large files such as databases
Integrated data deduplication
  • Reduces the amount of disk capacity required
  • Post process does not impact backup or application server performance
Policy-based backup engine
  • Balances application recovery requirements with processing, network and storage resources
  • Select schedule of snapshots based on the needs of each application
  • True Continuous Data Protection (CDP)*
  • Helps reduce costs while improving recovery service levels for mission-critical applications
IP-based replication
  • Transfer copies of data off-site for DR, to another Storwize V7000 or to TSM
  • Incremental-only transfer and scheduling reduces impact on network
Storage area network (SAN) backup
  • SAN-based backup processes that do not impact local area network (LAN) bandwidth
Instant Mount/Virtual Recovery
  • File system view into the backup repository allows click-drag-drop recovery of any file or folder
  • Restores full access to any volume in seconds, while recovery occurs in the background
Point-in-time recovery
  • Roll back to any previous point in time to recover from accidental deletions, virus attacks, rolling corruptions, etc.
  • Maintain any number of previous generations
Granular email recovery
  • Drag-and-drop restore of Microsoft Exchange email objects, such as messages, attachments, calendars, contacts, tasks, notes, journals
  • Integrated search capabilities
Remote office support
  • Helps reduce costs of backup system management
  • Helps improve backup and recovery service levels
  • Helps improve reliability and minimise recovery failures
Integration with tape infrastructure
  • Leverages current investments
  • Offloads the impact of tape backups from application servers
Central management
  • Centrally manage all backup and recovery operations
  • Single Web-based interface
  • Manages both local and remote offices
Full automation
  • ‘Set it and forget it’ policy engine
  • Self-managing repository always has a set number of data iterations on hand for easy rollback and fast recovery
Application aware
  • Support for almost all Windows and Linux-based applications, including IBM DB2, Microsoft Exchange and SQL, Oracle and mySAP

IBM FastBack for Storwize V7000 at a glance
For the latest system requirements, visit: ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=3507&context=SS9NU9&uid=swg21315086
Backup and DR Server system requirements:
Operating systems
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise Server (SP1 or later)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Server (SP1 or later) 32-bit
Processor
  • 3 GHz Dual Intel® Pentium® D or compatible; 4 GHz Dual Intel Xeon® recommended for deduplication
Memory
  • 2 GB Random Access Memory (RAM), 2 GB virtual memory
Available disk space
  • 200 MB for FastBack Server, 200 MB for Documents and Settings folder, 1 GB for deduplication
Local Area Network (LAN) connectivity
  • 1 Network Interface Card (NIC), 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) (1 Gigabits per second (Gbps) recommended)
Repository
  • Any IDE, SCSI, SCSI over IP (iSCSI), or Fibre Channel (FC) disk, three times the capacity of primary storage (five times recommended)
Backup Client supported platforms:
  • Microsoft XP Professional, Service Pack 2 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Standard, Advanced or Professional, Service Pack 3 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard or Enterprise, Service Pack 1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows 2003 64-bit edition
  • Microsoft Vista®, all editions, Service Pack 1 or later
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 included R2 editions
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, Service Pack 2
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.2 and 5.3 Server Advanced Platform
Microsoft Cluster support
  • Supports Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server configurations
Microsoft VSS support
  • Integrated with Microsoft VSS writers to back up Exchange and SQL Servers
  • Note: VSS not available on pre-Windows 2003 platforms
Microsoft Exchange support
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010
Microsoft Active Directory® support
  • Integrated with Microsoft Active Directory for improved administration and security
Management
  • Java™-based Graphical User Interface (GUI), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Command Line Interface (CLI)

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