Solstice Solstice Backup


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Enterprise-wide Data Storage Management / Consistent, Reliable Data Protection / Reduces Cost of Administration / Empowering the User / Reducing Backup Time / Managing and Protecting the Enterprise: Solstice Backup Product Family / System Requirements / Back Up Media supported / Ordering Information /

Solstice(TM) Backup(TM), Solstice Backup Single Server and Solstice Advanced are a family of products from SunSoft that deliver the best heterogeneous data protection available for enterprise computing environments today. Solstice Backup insures consistent, reliable data protection, reduces the costs of administration and minimizes backup time. Best of all, Solstice Backup unifies storage management for your entire network of heterogeneous systems.

Enterprise-wide Data Storage Management

Solstice Backup allows a Solaris(TM) server to provide high-performance backup and recovery services to a wide array of machines on the network, ranging from desktop PCs and UNIX(R) workstations to multi-gigabyte UNIX and NetWare fileservers. This heterogeneous platform support ensures a consistent approach to data management for the entire network.

Solstice Backup supports all the leading storage devices, including tape drives, optical disks, autochangers, and jukeboxes. Solstice Backup utilizes the same tape format across all platforms, allowing seamless tape interchange and flexible media management.

Consistent, Reliable Data Protection

Solstice Backup provides comprehensive disaster data recovery. Automatic on-line backup preserves file consistency while uses continue to work on-line. Automatic verification of backups assures reliability. Solstice Backup even maintains an on-line index of backup operations for restoring a precise version of files or directories.

Reduces Cost of Administration

Solstice Backup provides simple, centralized administration through a single, unified view of the entire data management operation from any point on the network. New clients can be seamlessly integrated without any changes to the backup server. Intuitive user interfaces simplify administrative tasks such as setting up enterprise-wide backup schedules.

Solstice Backup, with automated disaster recovery, tape management, media labeling and media pools simplifies backup and recovery tasks. Policies for automatic recycling can also be defined.

Empowering the User

Network users can backup or recover their local files without assistance from the network administrator. Using an intuitive GUI, any end user can browse the content of a file system and select files for recovery. Command line interfaces are provided for non X-window environments.

Reducing Backup Time

Solstice Backup can direct multiple backups and recoveries through one or more storage devices, simultaneously, including multiple jukeboxes. Multiple clients can simultaneously send files to same server to improve performance. Client-side data compression reduces the backup load on the network to further enhance performance.

Managing and Protecting the Enterprise: Solstice Backup Product Family

The Solstice Backup product family provides a scalable backup solution that grows to match your capacity and performance requirement. Current Solstice Backup installations have up to 400 clients per server and 750GB of data per server.

Solstice Backup is suitable for small to medium size networks where multiple client support is required but not jukebox support.

Solstice Backup Single Server is suitable for small servers that serve dataless or diskless clients and small multiuser systems.

Solstice Backup Advanced is suitable for any size network where jukebox support is mandatory.

Additional products are available to enhance performance and to extend capacity. Concurrent Devices Support Module enables multiple backup devices or jukeboxes to operate concurrently. Jukebox Software Module enables unattended backup and recover to a wide range of jukebox devices. Additional Client support are provided with the clientpaks.

ClientPak II (x86 clients)
ClientPak III (NetWare client)

System Requirements

Solaris server running Solaris 2.3 or later revision configured with a storage device.

Back Up Media supported

Devices and autochangers for 4mm, 8mm, 1/4" tapes as well as multiple optical jukeboxes.

Ordering Information

To purchase Solstice Backup, in the U.S., call 1-800-SUN-SOFT.

Outside the U.S., please call +1-415-960-3200 for the location of the SunSoft office closest to you.