Cadalyst
by Ron LaFon
March 1, 2008
UBDR Gold is the first bare-metal recovery utility that has integrated FTP into disaster recovery.
UltraBac UBDR Gold Server edition v3.5 is priced $995 with agents for TSM, FTP, and media libraries available
for an additional cost. After the product is purchased, you can arrange to receive it in a download, if so desired.
Technical support is free during the evaluation period or with a maintenance contract; without a maintenance contract,
the company charges a per-incident fee.
Both UBDR Pro and UBDR Gold are on bootable CDs that use Windows PE technology as a platform to perform UltraBac
Image Disaster Recovery Agent restorations. UBDR Pro is designed to retrieve and restore UltraBac image backups of a
partition or an entire disk from a locally attached tape device or a remote disk path. UBDR Gold also has that ability,
as well as the option to restore from an FTP site, Tivoli device, or a remote tape device. UBDR Gold can also be used to
perform both image and file-by-file backups. When the system boots, the UBDR Restore CD automatically detects and loads
drivers for most NIC cards, SCSI cards, and RAID controllers.
UBDR Gold can coexist with any backup solution as a standalone license or it can be integrated with an existing
UltraBac backup license. The UBDR Gold Stand-Alone version includes a backup software engine. This option is slightly
more expensive, but UBDR Gold Stand-Alone offers true machine-backup redundancy and provides access to a licensed machine's
tape drive remotely when installed.
Ron LaFon is a writer, editor and computer graphics and electronic publishing specialist from Atlanta, Georgia.
He is a principal at 3Bear Productions in Atlanta.
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