Unique Sybase Features :

• "Hot" backup
• Supports multiple database servers operating on one machine
• Selectable database backup and restore operations
• Multiple backup modes
• Logs Sybase error messages
• Uses low-level backup API for maximum data throughput

NetVault Features:

• Uses native NetVault API for application integration
• Easy to use administration GUI for UNIX and Windows Platforms
• 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 Devices (DSDTM ) allows library sharing across SANs or shared SCSI
• DirecSANTM 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 Windows

Information is a growing and priceless asset for all organizations. Sybase environments are experiencing rapid growth as the importance of data and its uses has become a competitive edge for fast-growing companies.With the increasing size and number of Sybase applications comes the need for a reliable and easy to use solution that protects these important corporate assets.

Storage Management for Sybase Administrators

The Sybase Application Plugin Module (APMTM) provides increased application availability via fast, online backup of Sybase databases in UNIX and WindowsTM environments. The APM includes a wide variety of important features such as hot backup, support for multiple database servers on a single machine, advanced logging capabilities and a low-level backup Application Programming Interface (API) for maximized throughput.

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

Supports multiple database servers operating on one machine: The Sybase APM displays all available servers. The APM allows backup or restore operations to be executed on all available Sybase servers.

Selectable database backup operations: Back up only what is needed with the Sybase APM. An easy to use, point and click user interface provides precise tuning of the backup and restore sets.

Multiple backup modes: The Sybase APM supports full, incremental and differential backup.

Logs Sybase error messages: Sybase records all messages to private log files. During backup and recovery operations, NetVault intercepts log messages related to the current job and sends a copy to the NetVault log so they can be displayed with other NetVault job messages.

Uses low-level backup API for maximum data throughput: The NetVault Sybase APM acts as a conduit between the proprietary backup API provided by Sybase and the core NetVault software. This enables data to be transferred directly between Sybase and NetVault without any operating system mechanism such as pipes or temporary files and results in higher data throughput as compared to conventional backup systems.