Centralized, Automated Backup for Large UNIX Databases

As databases become the acknowledged backbone that sustain a business's competitive advantage, protecting them has become essential to corporate survival. The tested approach of a nightly full backup has run into the physical and communication challenges of geographically-dispersed database servers and the time limitations of the database administrator. DBVault affords an efficient and an effective solution by providing reliable and fully automated network backup and recovery for large UNIX databases.

Because DBVault works with raw and standard partitions as well as being independent of database architecture, it is capable of hot or cold backups of all three popular database products: Oracle, Informix, and Sybase. These databases can reside on a wide range of client systems including NCR System V Release 4, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, SUN SunOS, Digital Alpha, and Sequent.

The DBVault product is available in two versions (OnLine or OffLine) for each of the popular databases. If 24x7 availability is the norm, then the OnLine version of DBVault will back up the database without the loss of any transactions. However, when a database can be brought down for backup, DBVault OffLine is the preferred choice to back up and restore inactive databases. Both versions can perform three types of backups; full backups that copy the entire database, incremental backups that capture only those blocks that have been modified, plus, a CommVault© exclusive called "partial-full".

Patent-Pending Technique Reduces Backup and Restore Time

DBVault can employ a patent-pending backup technique called Partial-Full^tm. Each backup created by this technique includes a designated fraction of the unmodified database as well as those blocks modified since the last Partial-Full backup. By spreading the resources necessary to build a copy of the database over a number of backup cycles, it eliminates the dedicated computing resources normally associated with a full backup.

Both versions of DBVault employ optional data compression to reduce network traffic and increase productivity. DBVault OffLine can be interrupted and restarted from the point of interruption without the loss of data. DBVault sits on a dedicated CommVault® CommServ^tm server and requires the CommVault ABARS software to be present on the managed network node.

Advantages

• Reliable automated backup and restore for large UNIX databases
• Minimizes system or database administration requirement
• Flexible automatic scheduling plus on-demand backups
• Hot or cold modes of all popular databases
• Patent-pending "Partial-Full" reduces backup and restore time
• Restarts from point of failure

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