from ebackup Inc. is a complete, secure, on-line data management service for enterprise-wide LANs, including automated backup, fault-tolerant off-site storage, and fast data recovery.

Here are some notable features:

• Real-time file restoration for faster data recovery
• Security, including 128-256 bit AES encryption, passwords, authentication, and delta compression
• Redundant, fault-tolerant RAID 5 storage to ensure data availability 7x24x365
• Automated, unattended backups for improved staff productivity
• Backs up Windows NT™ 2000, NetWare™, all common Unix™ environments, and VMS™
• Multitasking, multithreading operations for increased productivity and speed
• Enhanced administrative efficiencies
• Reporting utilities for planned bandwidth and server upgrades

The following features are discussed below:

Backup Sets	Backup options
Connection	ISDN, T1, ATM, Internet, Modem using TCP/IP protocol
Data Recovery	Locked files, file overwrite, time selections, restore locations
DS-Client	Backup and recovery software application
DS-Delta	Incremental backups
DS-Library	Identification of duplicate files
DS-Statistics	Reporting utility for load, utilization, and storage trends
DS-System	On-line, off-site RAID 5 data vault; available 7x24x365
	Brand name of data backup, storage, and recovery services
DS-User	Graphical user interface
Security	AES encryption, digital signatures, authentication
Certification	Certification by Microsoft, Novell, IBM, et al

Backup Sets - for flexible backups of multiple-platform LAN environments ?

A backup set is the list of items you wish to backup from your computer or network. It includes directories, files, and applications.

• Backup options and the backup schedule are user-definable for each backup set.
• Rapid Recovery can backup Windows Environments, Linux, NetWare™,
  all common UNIX™ environments, and VMS™.
  
• Backup Options:
  • Unattended, customizable scheduled backups
  • On-demand backups of individual directories, files, or a backup set
  • Configurable multiple file generations
  • "Buffered" Backup feature for short backup window (Data is backed up from a server to a buffered area and then transmitted from the buffer to the off-site storage vault. This frees up the server for other tasks.)
  • Backup of open files
  • Backup of security and configuration (Windows NT™/95/98, NetWare™ 3.xx, 4.xx, 5.xx, and UNIX™
  • Fast initial backup
  • On-line backup of Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange Servers

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Connection - bandwidth options for any budget

• The designated DS-Client machine uses the standard TCP/IP protocol to connect to the off-site ebackup System Data Vault, using either a dedicated or dial-up communications link. This may be via ISDN, PRI, BRI, ATM, Internet, or Modem. Your LAN may be 10/100 Base-T, Token Ring, ATM, or FDDI.

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Data Recovery - for fast critical data availability

• Real-time restoration of files over a communications line.
• Alternate restore locations.
• Locked file restoration.
• Truncation of restore path.
• File overwrite and time selection options.
• Options to restore registry, bindery, NDS, and file security.
• Large data volumes at native LAN speeds via portable Rapid Recovery System.

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DS-Client - for simple, hassle-free data management

• This is the backup and recovery software application. This application functions as a "gateway" between your data and the off-site ebackup System Data Storage Vault. The DS-Client integrates with your existing network security structure.
• The DS-Client executes as a service typical on any Windows NT™2000 system. It creates, maintains, and deletes backup sets, monitors activities, initiates scheduled backups, and permits user-initiated data recovery. It will browse and backup every computer visible to it on a LAN.
• Because Rapid Recovery is an "agentless" application, only one DS-Client is required for your enterprise. So maintenance and troubleshooting diagnosis is limited to a single software installation.
• For larger backup requirements, you can opt to distribute multiple DS-Client applications across your computing environment.
• Multitasking and multithreading operations allow you to perform backup, restore, and delete functions on different data sets simultaneously, increasing productivity.

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DS-Delta - for efficient data transfers that conserve bandwidth

• This technology saves one original "master" file at the ebackup System Data Storage Vault; subsequent backups send only the binary changes that have occurred to the original file.
• This enhances data security, and reduces data transfer volumes by as much as 99%. It also shortens the backup window, and reduces the amount of bandwidth you require to transfer your data to the off-site ebackup System Data Storage Vault.

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DS-Library - for "intelligent" data backups

This technology ensures that identical, duplicate files are not transferred to the ebackup DS-System Data Storage Vault. This reduces file transmission sizes, while increasing data backup speeds.

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DS-Statistics - for planning and managing equipment purchases, bandwidth upgrades, and network loads before a crisis develops

This is the reporting utility which allows you to measure your LAN's activities, including load, utilization, and storage trends, without sending data to the ebackup System Data Storage Vault.

• Statistics are available per server, group, or individual user.
• The report is useful for equipment and bandwidth planning, and load balancing. It also allows you to estimate the required backup time and cost per GB per month, based on the type of communication line you are using to transfer your data to the ebackup DS-System Data Storage Vault.

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• The data stored in the ebackup DS-System Vault is routinely backed up onto different media located at separate premises. This ensures further physical security.
• It keeps accurate event logs of all data transferred and stored.
• Your data is kept on-line so that it is always available. The data vault is located at ebackup Inc’s off-site Data Centre.

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• Your data is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it remains encrypted until it is restored on your LAN premises.
• Rapid Recovery Services was developed by ebackup Inc., and is offered as a service through Value Added Reseller Program (Partner Program).
• Because Rapid Recovery Services is remarketed and resold, there is no additional hardware to maintain, troubleshoot, or purchase, except for your TCP/IP communications link, and long distance charges, if applicable. And there's no software to purchase either.

• At least one DS-User installation is required to manage the DS-Client, and it can be installed on the same computer as the DS-Client, or as a remote management feature, on any other Windows NT™2000 computer with a TCP/IP connection to the DS-Client.
• DS-User access to the DS-Client adopts the existing LAN security model.

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• Data is always encrypted, compressed, and decrypted at your LAN location. This means that your data is encrypted before leaving your premises and remains encrypted at all times - even when stored off-site - until it is restored back at your LAN location.
• The DS-Client integrates transparently with your existing security access levels, so your LAN security is unaffected. You specify backup and restore permissions as required.
• Other security features include the creation and verification of digital signatures, authentication, backup set synchronization, user name, and password.

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• The Microsoft BackOffice integrated family of server software
• Novell NetWare and Novell NDS Network Directory Services under the Novell "Yes, Tested & Approved™" and the "Directory Enabled™" marks, respectively
• Hummingbird Communications NFS Maestro Gateway for UNIX under the "Flying with Hummingbird" mark

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