• "Hot" backup
• Multiple backup modes
• Easy to use graphical user interface
• Point and click drill down to individual database spaces
• Multiple database servers operating on one machine

NetVault Features:

• Uses native NetVault API for application integration
• Easy to use administration GUI for UNIX and NT
• Point and click install of APM to servers or clients across networks
• Extensive media verification
• Threshold-triggered backup
• Allows pre and post processing scripts
• Supports raw devices and file systems
• Extensive low level error checking, logging and reporting
• TurboVault provides tunable shared main memory and block size for optimized performance
• Local or remote backup and recovery
• SAN LAN-free backup
• Duplication for off-site disaster recovery
• Dynamically Shared Drives (DSDTM ) allows library sharing across SANs or shared SCSI
• SmartClientTM client transfer eliminates the backup server from the data path for maximum SAN performance
• Disk staging for increased performance across networks
• Supports as many data streams as there are devices
• Standard, non-proprietary tape formats, CPIO for UNIX and MTF for NT

Information is a growing and priceless asset for all organizations. Informix environments are experiencing dramatic growth as the importance of data and its uses has become a competitive edge for fast-growing organizations.With the increasing size and number of Informix databases comes the need for a reliable and easy to use solution to protect those assets. A database-specific backup and restoration solution is critical for keeping user data protected.

Storage Management for Informix Administrators

The Informix Application Plugin Module (APM) provides increased application availability via fast, online backup of Informix databases in UNIX and WindowsTM NT environments. The APM includes a wide variety of important features such as hot backup, support for multiple database servers on a single machine, a variety of backup operations and selectable backup options.

Hot backup: With NetVault’s Informix APM, user databases remain online and fully accessible during backup operations, assuring zero downtime for users.

Selectable database backup operations: Back up only what is needed with the NetVault Informix APM. An easy to use, point and click Informix-specific user interface provides precise tuning of the backup and restore sets down to the individual DB spaces.

Multiple backup modes: The Informix APM supports full backup and two forms of incremental backup.

Multiple database servers operating on one machine: The Informix APM allows backup operations to be applied to any available Informix server.