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Disaster Recovery Pick
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| Title
- SunGard Paragon |
| Author
- SunGard |
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Short Description
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| With SunGard’s
Paragon Information Availability software tool, you might never
need to worry about recovering from a disaster. That’s because
Paragon is next-generation software for creating and implementing
an Information Availability program, one that helps to provide
uninterrupted access to your critical data and systems. |
| SunGard Paragon
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| - SBA for AIX |
| SBA for AIX
Description |
Storix System Backup Administrator (SBA) is a feature rich AIX based Backup and Disaster Recovery application, which provides an easy to use graphical user interface for centralized management of system and data backup. SBA is available for standalone systems, or as a network administrator used to manage backups and restores across the network. SBA was designed not only to backup data files to a network server, but to also provide the ability to reinstall a complete system from scratch while providing the flexibility needed to restore the backup onto a different hardware environment.
SBA was designed to perform the difficult task of recovering an AIX system that other backup products avoid. Unlike other AIX recovery and bare-metal restore options, SBA understands your AIX system and configuration. You can perform volume group and raw logical volume backups, convert filesystems from JFS to JFS2, and even completely re-customize your system during the system installation process to match your new hardware if necessary.
SBA was created by the original developer of IBM AIX System Backup & Recovery/6000 (Sysback), and includes the system recovery features of Sysback and much more. Unlike Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM, formerly IBM ADSM), SBA is not a tape library management product randomly backing up and cataloging thousands of files, which is a complicated and expensive feature that is needed only by very large (and usually multi-platform) installations. SBA was originally developed for use exclusively in an AIX environment, and includes most of the features that most AIX users require, as well as some advanced features like tape labels, random and sequential tape autoloaders, without imposing the high cost of features they dont need.
The Need for System Backup Administrator
Other multi-platform backup products may provide centralized backup management and scheduling, but only of regular files and directories. These other products are not capable of reinstalling a complete system from scratch, or rebuilding and restoring the system from the ground up, including LVM and various different filesystem types and attributes. Those that do usually perform a bare metal restore, meaning you are locked into the previous configuration, even when trying to restore to different disk configurations.
Although Sysback has wide appeal and provides the network system backup and recovery features that the mksysb program (provided with AIX) does not, it still provides only an ASCII text-based interface and managing network backups becomes increasingly difficult as the number of systems increases. Likewise, other multi-platform backup products may provide centralized backup management and scheduling, but only of regular files and directories. These other products are not capable of reinstalling a complete system from scratch, or rebuilding and restoring AIX volume groups, filesystems and raw logical volumes, device and paging space configuration, etc. |
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