BRU™ SERVER FOR MAC OS X

Backup & Restore Software for Client/Server Networks

BRU Server for Mac OS X is a native Macintosh backup software solution that protects critical information on client/server-based Mac OS X networks.

VERSIONS

• BRU Server for Mac OS X - Basic Edition (2 Client License)
• BRU Server for Mac OS X - Network Edition (25 Client License)
• BRU Server for Mac OS X - Enterprise Edition (150 Client License, BRU Synchronization Manager)
• BRU Server Clients License - Add on clients for Basic/Network/Enterprise Editions
  • Single License
  • Five (5) Pack License
  • Ten (10) Pack License
  • Twenty-five (25) Pack License
  • One Hundred (100) Pack License
• BRU Server Synchronization Manager
• TOLIS Tape Tools
• Annual Support Program

BRU technology has been supporting UNIX customers for over 18 years, and the experience gained is incorporated into BRU Server. The following information highlights the robustness of BRU Server.

OPERATIONAL

• Native Mac OS X client/server backup software
• Supports Mac OS X and OS X Server 10.2 and newer
• Supports disk-to-disk, disk-to-tape, and disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategies
• Straight forward installation; client systems and tape devices are automatically recognized and configured
• Intuitive user interface that adheres to the Aqua interface standard provides point-and-click operation to the rich feature set
• Fully scriptable from the command line
• Character-based and graphical management consoles provide local and remote control
• Headless backup and restore operations can be managed via telnet or ssh sessions
• Flexibility to define how the backup operation should be performed because very few sites have the same backup requirements

PERFORMANCE

• Industry's shortest backup window (fully verified backups) by using Data Staging and out-of-band (Anytime VerifyT) data verification
• Low overhead allows multiple BRU processes to write to multiple storage devices simultaneously with very little impact on system performance
• Pulls data off Xserve RAID (2GB/Fibre) in excess of 130 MB/second
• The most modern tape drives can be streamed
• Intelligent cataloguing provides a powerful query capability to quickly recover select files contained on tape
• Client system backups are not interleaved, thereby further shortening the time to restore selected files

RELIABILITY

• Ultra-reliable BRUT engine delivers industry-leading data protection reliability and ultimate restorability of the protected data
• Backups can be 100% verified without access to the original filesystems
• Anytime VerifyT and Inspect Mode backup verification options can be run as an out-of-band process, freeing up the server faster
• Broad compatibility - backups can be verified on a different system, and even on a different platform
• Backups can be committed to a disk staging area at primary storage subsystem performance levels - virtually eliminating perceived backup windows at the client system level
• Proven data restorability of BRU technology - corrupt data is reported, circumvented, and the restore continues unless the tape drive is physically unable to proceed
• Catalogs copied to tape in addition to the server HDD to provide enhanced availability to backup data should the server system HDD fail.

FUNCTIONALITY

• Highly scalable
• Protects data on systems intermittently-attached to the network
• Provides broadest Mac OS X tape library support available
• Lights-out, automated backup operations are scheduled from the user interface
• Full support for mach-o or CFM single file binaries and their resource fork and finder information, as well as full UNIX-based compatibility
• Handles files and permissions skipped by other Mac OS X backup utilities
• Properly backs up so-called "open files" under Mac OS X
• Full support of case sensitivity under the new Panther HFS+ filesystem
• Fully compatible with Panther's FileVault feature
• Single archives of any size can be created
• There is no limitation to the size of the catalogs
• Data can be restored from any BRU backup data set without dependence on any special files contained on the server hard disk
• Transport layer agnostic - whether Fibre Channel, SCSI, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless LAN, etc.
• Provides data backup and restore services within NAS, SAN and wireless environments
• QFA (Quick File Access) provides fast access to files contained on tape
• Client system data is not interleaved with other client system data
• Client-side data encryption provides secure communication between client systems and the server
• Network traffic data compression is configurable and can provide better utilization of available network bandwidth
• Pre and post scripts may be run on a client system to freeze the state of a database running on that machine or export its state to an intermediate file
• Files and directories can be excluded from the backup from the client system (excluding mp3 files, for example)
• E-mail notification of all operations including interact requirements and job status
• Server is localization friendly

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

CPU and Speed: 1 GHz processor
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2+
RAM (Minimum/Recommended): 256MB RAMHard Drive Space (Minimum/Recommended): 55MB on Server; 15MB on clients