Data Management Solutions: Computer Associates

Company: Computer Associates
One Computer Associates Plaza
Islandia, NY 11788-7000
Telephone: 516-342-6000

Product Name: CA-Unicenter for Solaris

Product Description: The main objectives of the data management features of CA-Unicenter are to protect tapes from being overwritten accidentally, ensure that files are backed up at the right time, manage disk space efficiently and retrieve archived files when they are needed. CA-Unicenter for Solaris provides all these functions, and more. The data management component is a full-functioned tape and backup management system that is based on an integrated file catalog that allows uniform access to files regardless of the file system or medium on which the file resides.

Tape management facilities protect tapes by recognizing those that should not be overwritten until the required retention criteria have been met -- cycles,generations or time periods. Tape management tracks scratch tape availability, tape & device I/O errors, and location of tape volumes. In sum, CA-Unicenter offers a safe and effective tape management environment.

Disk backup management provides a complete backup and archive facility supporting full file system, incremental, and partial backups and archives. A comprehensive tracking, reporting and restoration system is also provided, including automatic transparent restore of archived files. (When a program references the archived file, the automatic transparent restore function triggers the restore operation.)

Facilities are also provided to trigger a threshold archive based on a user-defined percentage of file-system-used. Threshold archive quickly frees additional space by deleting files for which current backups exist. These backup versions are dynamically re-designated as archive versions that are then eligible for automatic transparent restore. Backup management is tightly integrated with the tape management facilities to ensure consistent retention and protection of file backups.

Solaris Support: Solaris 2.x

Availability: Worldwide

Language Support: US English