NCR and BakBone Software™ have joined forces to bring Teradata® customers the highest performance online Backup/Archive/Restore (BAR) solution in the data warehouse marketplace. This joint effort, combining BakBone’s latest release of NetVault, Version 7.0, and a newly developed NCR Teradata APM, has produced a new standard for storage management performance and ease of use in data warehousing BAR functionality.

Storage Management for Teradata Administrators
The NCR Teradata Extension APM for NetVault provides increased application availability via fast, online backup of Teradata databases in UNIX and Windows environments. The APM includes a wide variety of important features such as multiple backup modes, an easy-to-use graphical user interface and parallel Teradata Node backup support.

Key Benefits
• Optimized for Teradata - Provides the highest BAR performance for the Teradata environment
• NetVault is the Teradata-advocated replacement for the discontinued ASF2/REEL backup software
• Highly scalable – NetVault easily expands from simple one-node SMP development systems to large multiple-node, shared storage resource Enterprise environments
• NetVault’s single domain backup architecture also provides data protection on most Open Systems platforms (including Linux, Unix, and Windows), all integrated with the Teradata BAR environment – and all from a single management GUI!
• Seamlessly integrates with Teradata high availability and business continuance offerings to provide the highest levels of data availability in the industry
• Enables all forms of data protection for the Teradata data warehouse – including full clustered backup, shared SAN storage, and support for StorageTek™ ACSLS tape automation systems

Major Features
Multiple backup modes: The NCR Teradata APM supports a variety of full backup options, in addition to incremental backup and user scriptable control

Selectable database backup operations: Backup only what is needed with the NCR Teradata APM. With the navigation of an easy to use, point and click Teradata-specific user interface, administrators can select exactly what needs to be backed up or restored

Parallel backup support: Backups may be split into multiple jobs for parallel execution
and automatic load balancing

Clustered node support: Take advantage of cluster backups – the ability to parallelize
any backup job, even a single table

Graphical User Interface: NetVault’s point and click, easy to use graphical interface is available on both MP-RAS UNIX and Windows platforms for Teradata-specific backup and restore options