eWeek Magazine
by Evan Koblentz
June 23, 2003
BEI Corp.'s UltraBac Software division last week launched UltraBac 7.1, adding
new Unix agents, plus incremental backup support for Windows 2003, officials
said.
The software, for midsize companies and large companies' departmental use, is
available now starting at $495 per server.
UltraBac's 6.x series had basic Unix support, which was removed in Version 7.0 as
part of an architecture redesign. "Now they're back in, but they're improved,"
said Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Paul Bunn, in Bellevue, Wash. "Now
the enumeration is done dynamically. We've also added for the first time AIX and
HP-UX agents." FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris are also supported.
Besides support for Windows 2003's Virtual Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which UltraBac
will support later this year, the software can now restore individual files and has its
own version of incremental backups, Bunn said.
Incremental backup is the ability to back up only the data that's changed since
last time. "Our technology is better," supporting prior Windows versions, he
said. In the native Windows 2003 VSS, Microsoft can't support incremental Exchange
or SQL Server backups, Bunn said. "Microsoft has actually told us about the
problems," he said.
UltraBac 7.1 now supports more external backup devices as well, specifically
those using FireWire or USB connections. For devices like tape drives, Windows'
Plug-and-Play support introduced in 1995 is "just about starting to work," he
said.
A command line setup feature for administrators to install new licensed copies
of UltraBac 7.1 within a network, without additional software, is also new, Bunn
said.
Separately, "we've got a new version of our disaster recovery coming out" this
week called UBDR Pro, which will focus on failed servers, he said.
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