NetVault

From the experts in open systems data recovery, BakBone Software’s NetVault 7 delivers enhanced data protection and enterprise-class functionality that scales to meet the demands of any sized environment. NetVault’s flexible, modular architecture delivers proven reliability and high performance, with a unique combination of features designed to meet current and future data protection needs. Whether you are managing a few servers or a multi-site networked storage environment, there is a NetVault package designed to fit your needs.

Key Benefits
Increased Automation
NetVault 7’s event notification enhancements and policy based job management features are designed to provide increased automation, especially when deployed across heterogeneous storage networks. NetVault 7 enables administrators to define, manage and monitor jobs from remote clients, while the flexible notification feature ensures business continuance with the ability to define event contexts and triggers. Enhanced Administrator Productivity Policy based job management and NetVault’s enhanced reporting capabilities simplify maintenance of your data protection strategies. Many activities such as job definition and event notification can be defined and modified at a group level, making administrative tasks quicker and easier.

Rapid Deployment
NetVault’s automated installation and device configuration features make it easy to add, manage or re-deploy distributed data management components throughout an ever-growing enterprise storage environment. With our Modular Architecture you can license only those components you need today, while easily expanding the system as your storage environment or performance requirements grow.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership
By dramatically simplifying implementation and networked storage administration, NetVault 7 ensures improved data availability while reducing associated labor costs. NetVault can significantly lower your TCO and provide a return on your initial software investment in as little as six to nine months. Major Features

Policy Based Job Management
Comprehensive job management tools help storage administrators create data protection policies that are used to efficiently define and manage backup strategies for all of your clients and critical applications. The Policy Management tools allow job templates to be created and easily applied to a single client or an entire group of clients, simultaneously. Once defined, policy-based administration allows you to monitor, manage and edit a group of jobs as a single entity. This ultimately improves productivity and reduces the human error associated with manual job management.

User Level Access
To ease storage administration, the User Level Access feature allows users to be defined with a specific set of privileges on an individual or group basis. For example, you may grant the ability to run reports and define backup jobs to your Database Administrators, while limiting all other users to restoring only their clients’ files. User Level Access is ideal for extending a subset of NetVault’s features to other members of the IT staff as well as end users and helps free network administrators for more critical tasks. NetVault Policy View showing color coded active policy status.

Enhanced Reporting
The improved reporting feature enables the administrator to schedule reports on many aspects of NetVault’s operation with several output types available, such as HTML or Comma Delimited. Reports can be viewed dynamically, printed and/or emailed upon completion. In addition, a powerful report-editing tool has been provided to allow user-defined reports to be created. Reports can be executed conditionally and/or on a scheduled basis.

SAN / NAS Support
NetVault helps you leverage your investment in today’s advanced storage networking technology. Large capacity libraries and high speed tape devices are easily shared within a NetVault domain. With DirecSAN™ support you can share media and libraries between multiple nodes to distribute backup operations while increasing data throughput and reducing network load. NetVault automatically determines the best data path and handles shared device arbitration.

Comprehensive Application Support
NetVault provides a full suite of Application Plugin Modules (APM™) to provide online support for your critical business database and messaging applications. Installed on the client, the APM communicates with these applications using a backup interface that is consistent with each application. Each APM’s interface automatically adds application specific components to your backup and restore selection criteria.