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Product Description
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What is System Backup Administrator?
The Need for System Backup Administrator
License Options
Supported Hardware & Software
License Features
System-Specific Features
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What is System Backup Administrator?
System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin)
is a feature-rich AIX and Linux based Backup and Disaster Recovery application, which
provides an easy to use graphical user interface for centralized management of system and
data backup. SBAdmin is available for standalone systems, or as a network administrator
used to manage backups and restores across the network. However, SBAdmin was designed not
only to backup data files to a network server, but to also provide the ability to reinstall
a complete system from scratch while providing the flexibility needed to restore the backup
onto a different hardware environment.
SBAdmin is not a tape library management product. The process of randomly backing up and
cataloging thousands of files is a complicated and expensive feature that is needed only
in extremely large installations. SBAdmin incorporates the features that system administrators
require, including some advanced features like tape labels and support for random tape
libraries and sequential autoloaders, without imposing the high cost of features they
don't need.
The Need for System Backup Administrator
Other multi-platform backup products may provide centralized backup
management and scheduling, but only of regular files and directories.
These other products are not capable of reinstalling a complete system
from scratch, or rebuilding and restoring the system from the ground up,
including LVM and various different filesystem types and attributes. Those
that do usually perform a "bare metal" restore, meaning you
are locked into the previous configuration, even when trying to restore
to different disk configurations.
License Options
All products available for a 30-day free trial.
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Desktop Edition
This inexpensive option is available only for personal (non-commercial) use.
Options provided are those typically required for a Linux/x86 home system.
(Not available for AIX or Linux on IBM pSeries & OpenPower systems.)
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Workstation Edition
This more advanced option provides all available backup and recovery
features for local system backups to tape or hard disk, and is available
for commercial use. This includes all available features needed for
standalone system backups. No client/server options are provided.
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Network Administrator
This option provides all the available backup features of the
Workstation Edition, but allows the local system to act as an
administrator for any number of other systems configured as
backup clients or media servers. Backups and restores, even system
installations may be performed from a remote system. A single Network
Administrator license is required, and the price is based on the
total number of unique clients and servers to be supported.
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Client/Server
Install this license onto any system to be managed by a Network
Administrator, including backup clients and backup media servers.
Licensing of these systems is managed by the Network Administrator.
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MS Windows/ Mac OS X (SMB) Data Backup
Install this single system license for a specified number of Windows, Mac OS X or other SMB
clients on the network to enable remote backup and restore to from an SMB share, or "shared
folder". Installing this feature will allow configuration of SMB clients, which are
backed up through an existing Linux client, serving as an "SMB host". The Network
Administrator manages all SMB Licenses.
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Data Encryption for Backups
Install this single system license onto any one system managed by a Network Administrator
or for a Workstation Edition for which you want to encrypt the data being backed-up. Data
Encryption for Backup Licenses can be managed by a Network Administrator for multiple
system installation, or by the Workstation Edition to which it is licensed.
Supported Hardware & Software
SBAdmin supports the following tape drives and technologies:
Any drive supporting SCSI-2 standards and magnetic tape (MT) command set
Autoloaders or librares that can use the tapeutil or mtx command sets
See our Hardware Support page for a complete listing
of supported hardware.
License Features
The following table lists the standard SBAdmin features supported on both AIX
and Linux systems.
For additional features designed specifically for AIX
and/or Linux systems
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| Xwindows (graphical) user interface |
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| Command-line backups and restores |
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| Backups of entire system |
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| File/Directory backups |
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| Filesystem backups |
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| Complete centralized network backup management |
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| Backup queuing, monitoring and reporting |
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| Backup schedules |
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| Multiple client backup jobs |
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| Stack multiple backups to tape |
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| Backup to disk images |
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| Incremental filesystem or VG backups |
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| Auto-verify after backup option |
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| Create bootable CDROMs for system recovery |
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| Configure bootable hard disks for system recovery |
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| Backup history reporting |
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| System installation from tape |
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| System installation from local hard disk |
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| Network system installation from remote tape or disk image backup |
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| Data Encryption for Backups |
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| Round Robin Support for Random Libraries |
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| Selective and wildcard file and directory restores |
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| Random Tape Library and Autoloader (stacker) support |
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| Exclude lists |
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| Optional (client-side) software compression |
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| Tape labels |
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| Track backups by tape volume |
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| Restore backup data starting from any tape volume |
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| Performance statistics |
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| Backup retention & overwrite policies |
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| User-defined backup and error notification |
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| Monitoring of client, server and device availability |
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| Supports all major filesystem types |
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| Support for RAID 0+1 and 1+0 using LVM/meta-disks |
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| LVM snapshot (point in time) backups |
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| LVM raw Logical Volume and Volume Group backups |
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| Software RAID raw meta-disk backups |
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| Multiple Bootloader Support |
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| MS Windows/Mac OS X (SMB) Data Backups |
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| Raw disk partition backups |
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| Create bootable floppies (x86 systems) |
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| System recovery of partitions, logical volumes and meta-disks |
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| Migration of filesystems to logical volumes and meta-disks |
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| Create new partitions and meta-disks during system installation |
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| Configure new PVs, VGs and Logical Volumes during system installation |
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| Add new filesystems and change filesystem types during system installation |
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| SMIT (ASCII) user interface |
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| Backup of volume groups, filesystems and raw logical volumes> |
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| Split-mirror (snap-shot) backups |
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| Tape boot for local or network system installation |
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| Network boot for local or network system installation |
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| Rebuild volume groups, logical volumes and filesystems onto a running system |
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| SP node graphical hardware controls |
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| Automatic SP node customization after system install |
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