BRU Workstation Backup & Restore Utility is a functionally rich backup and recovery solution designed for commercial networked systems.
Data Verification. Advanced checksumming technology provides multiple options to proof the accuracy of the backup as a background task, reducing the backup window by 50%.
Anytime VerifyT. Allows you to re-verify your data at any time.
Error Detection and Recovery . BRU implements powerful logic to circumvent corrupt data on damaged archives during a restore to return the most usable data possible when other backup tools simply abort the recovery.
AUTOSCANT Verification . BRU will automatically scan each archive tape and verify it for errors immediately after it is written. Customer-proven detection of problems caused by hardware or software errors works like an "early warning system" to detect problems before they become serious-like a tape drive that is just starting to fail.
Sparse Files . BRU will properly backup and restore large sparse files.
Long Pathnames . BRU will backup and restore files with pathnames up to 1023 characters long. This is useful for networked systems or for filesystems with deep directories.
Automatic Execution Logging . Because backups are serious business, you want to know immediately if anything went wrong. BRU automatically writes any warning/error messages to a special execution log file. The file also contains time-stamps of when BRU started and stopped.
Quick File Access (QFA) on select platforms provides faster access to files on tape to shorten restore times.
Unattended Backups . A special background mode lets you schedule BRU to run under cron, allowing backups to be performed overnight.
Support For Any Type of Device . BRU is device-independent and works with any native OS supported storage device. If your system can see it, BRU can write to it.
Handles Special Files. BRU will backup and restore all types of files, including special device files, links (symbolic and hard), pipes, empty directories - all the files that are skipped by utilities like tar. BRU will backup and restore every file on your disk.
Faster Crash Recovery . Since BRU will backup and restore all files, this saves time and makes it easier to restore your system in the event of a crash.
CRUT (Crash Recovery Utility) creates custom boot disks to easily manage a bare metal total system restore. CRU is available for Intel Linux and SCO OpenServer versions.
Protective File Restore . Restores files only from the backup tape that is newer - protects you by NOT overwriting files that have been recently updated (unless you force it to overwrite all files).
Easy Integration . Dozens of options and environment variables make it easy to include BRU as a shell script or menu system. With BRU, you can do backups your way - exactly how you want to do them.
Point-and-click interface for file and directory level backup and restore, fully scriptable from the command line.
Root-only Restore . Restores just the files in the root directory, excluding files from other filesystems.
Translate-on-RestoreT. Rename or move files when restoring.
Smart RestoreT. Restore active shared library and executable binary files without crashing the system.
Multiple Volume Archives . With BRU, archives can span more than one tape, allowing you to do backups of any size.
Faster Backups . BRU is "tunable" for peak performance, to allow your tape drive to run at its maximum potential.
Back Up Live Filesystems . It's not necessary to go into single-user mode. You can backup all the mounted filesystems or choose individual filesystems.
Incremental/Differential Backups . Sometimes you don't want to back up everything. You can save time (and media) by backing up only the files that have changed. Other options let you select by owner or type of file.
Raw Data Partitions . Backup and restore raw data partitions (often used by database programs like Oracle).
Select by Directory Depth . With this option, you can specify how many directory levels you want, which enables you to backup or restore ONLY the files in a directory, but NOT the files in the directories below it.
Include/Exclude Files . You can direct BRU to include or exclude certain files or directories in a backup (or restore). By specifying certain patterns (wildcard or regular expressions), you can perform customized backups.
Data Compression . BRU can save space on your archive media by compressing data as part of the backup operation. Files are usually compressed by 10% to 90% (depending on the type of data). Like all BRU data, the compressed files are saved in a special error-detection format. Compression is done in memory (no temporary disk space is used), so files of any size can be compressed. BRU speeds up the backup by not attempting to compress files that are already compressed.
- Works with all tape drive formats, removable disk technology, disk-files, MO, DVD and more.
- BRU also properly backs up filenames that include strange characters and spaces.
Tape Directory . A quick preview of a backup tape's contents eliminates the need for a time-consuming read.
Tape Labeling . For easy identification, all tapes are automatically labeled with date/time information when BRU writes to them. An optional label containing up to 63 characters can also be specified by the user. To make sure the correct tape is used, label functions can also be used when restoring.
Overwrite Protection . Protects against accidentally overwriting a recent backup tape (like the one from last night).
Tape Stacker Interface . Use with any sequential tape loader or jukebox.
