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ARCserve goes beyond backup to provide a comprehensive, integrated storage management platform for the Windows NT enterprise. ARCserve delivers leading edge, high-performance backup, restoration and disaster recovery for standalone Window NT Workstations, small LANs and heterogeneous enterprises.

Easy Deployment
Installing ARCserve is simple—just step through an installation wizard. To increase the speed of deployment, ARCserve can even remotely install its options and agents across the enterprise simultaneously.

ARCserve offers flexibility in device configuration—choose to use the existing Windows NT tape drivers or directly access the SCSI miniport for higher performance. ARCserve is compatible with most popular tape and optical devices/libraries. Select ARCserve’s standard database or an Open Database Compliant (ODBC) database as a repository for file, media, job and device information. This database can be local to each ARCserve server or replicated to a central location for centralized reporting and management, such as query for historical information from multiple backup machines and management of media pools from a central location. The central database can also generate ad hoc reports for all individual ARCserve databases, manage a centralized job queue for all ARCserve machines in the enterprise, as well as restore machines from a central location.

Centralized Management
The ARCserve manager provides centralized management of the ARCserve host server, allowing management of the host machines to be done locally or from a different Window NT machine. The manager provides a single point of control and monitoring of all ARCserve activities in the enterprise, including initiating backup/restore jobs and viewing the real-time status of each job. All administrative functions are easily accessible from remote locations through the ARCserve manager or Remote Access Service (RAS). The interface can be bypassed altogether and backup, restoration and copy operations can be submitted through command line scheduling! With the Enterprise edition, multiple ARCserve host servers can be arranged. Every window in the ARCserve manager interface can switch its view from one host server to another. View the local job queue for any selected host server and display a global job queue. This enterprise view displays a comprehensive list of every ARCserve host server and the job queue for each one. Real-time status of all ARCserve jobs across the enterprise can be viewed and managed.

System Management Framework
Unicenter^® TNG™ Framework™ is an integrated, end-to-end enterprise management solution that can be installed with ARCserve. Framework consists of the infrastructure components of Unicenter TNG, such as an advanced 2-D and 3-D GUI, a series of management agents that monitor the activities of desktops, servers and applications, an object repository that stores information about all resources, and a reporting and scheduling capability. ARCserve can be centrally managed with Framework.

• Auto Discovery identifies all ARCserve objects and populates the object repository.
• Object Repository is an object database that stores information about devices on the network.
• GUI provides you with different views of the network devices.
• Event Management sends alerts about the system’s conditions, based on user-defined thresholds.
• Job Scheduling provides cross-platform automation.
• Virus Scanning provides basic virus detection.
• Reporting reports on performance and object repository data.

High-Performance Backup
ARCserve’s 32-bit, multi-threaded, modular architecture is optimized for Microsoft Windows NT, providing faster performance for all operations and the ability to simultaneously manage several activities. With parallel streaming, ARCserve can increase performance by simultaneously backing up, restoring or copying data to or from up to 32 devices. Real time statistics can be viewed with ARCserve, which display the progress of the job in detail during its operation. ARCserve can also monitor session performance, and it further enhances performance for remote client data by passing data, utilizing its "push" client agent technology. The data from the client system is pre-packaged at the client site and passed to ARCserve to eliminate server CPU cycles and maximize network throughput.

Compatible With Microsoft Tape Format
ARCserve data is written to tape using CA’s proprietary ARCserve tape format (UTF). Through ARCserve’s MTF (Microsoft Tape Format) Read utility, data on tapes created using the Backup Utility in the Windows NT operating system or Seagate Software’s Backup Exec for Windows NT can be restored with full integrity.

Client Support
ARCserve for Windows NT was designed with the enterprise network in mind. With ARCserve Enterprise edition, an extensive variety of clients are available to back up Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1x, OS/2, Macintosh, UNIX and NetWare.

ARCserve Single Server provides backup of Windows NT Workstation, Windows 95 and Windows 3.1x.

Technical Specifications

System Requirements

• 25-MB hard disk space
• 24-MB RAM 32-MB RAM recommended
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation/Server, version 3.51 or 4.

Supported Platforms

• 486 or higher compatible processor

Media Format

• CD-ROM

AntiVirus Option
The AntiVirus Option for ARCserve is a full version of InocuLAN^®, Computer Associate’s award-winning, anti-virus solution for Windows NT. Viruses can be cured and the entire file server protected. In addition, files can be backed up. Powerful network management tools are provided with advanced virus scanning capabilities to provide the most comprehensive enterprise anti-virus solution available today. InocuLAN is certified to detect 100 percent of viruses in the "wild." InocuLAN is ideal for Windows NT and NetWare enterprises and is fully integrated with the Computer Associates AntiVirus Clients for Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.x, DOS and Macintosh workstations.

Tape And Optical Library Options
ARCserve provides flexible, unattended operations by optimizing the capabilities of tape libraries. Tape libraries and single-drive tape drives may be installed on the same computer, attached to the same or different host adapters. When using a multiple drive library, ARCserve sends simultaneous data streams to all drives to optimize throughput. The Tape library option provides important device management functions, including bar code support, formatting and erasing slot ranges, maintaining inventory on slots, mounting magazines and automatic cleaning the library’s tape drive. It also supports the import/export feature on drives offering this capability.

ARCserve’s Optical Library Option provides support for a large variety of single or multiple drive optical libraries. ARCserve supports optical libraries for data center automation and has the optical media benefits of extended shelf life and reliability. In multiple drive libraries, ARCserve supports parallel streaming.

RAID Option
There are three levels within the RAID Option that will allow you to further customize your backup. RAID 5 achieves maximum performance and provides fault tolerance when implemented on a tape array. When full RAID 5 is used with a group of three or more tape drives, this will ensure full protection, even if one of the tape drives in the group should fail. In addition, the tapes created by RAID will be similarly protected. If one of the tapes in the set is ever damaged or lost, parity striping ensures that the full backup is preserved on the remaining tapes in the set. With the use of RAID 1, two tape drives can be configured as identical mirrors of each other. The RAID Option will deliver identical data to both drives simultaneously. Lastly, RAID Level 0 delivers concurrent streams of data to the drives without generating parity.

Image Options
The Image Option enables ultra high-speed backup and restoration of local server data. ARCserve creates an "image" of the volume to be backed up and achieves high speeds by writing the volume image to tape, sector-by-sector rather than file-by-file. With the "snapshot" feature, volumes being accessed by active applications can be backed up with integrity and consistency. This enables you to get not only super-fast backups, but also a quick and easy restoration.

File-level restoration is available when using the Image Option. However, image restoration delivers increased speed over a typical file-level restoration. ARCserve and the combined strengths of the Image Option and the Disaster Recovery Option produce unparalleled restoration performance and disaster recovery for your valuable corporate data.

Computer Associates Disaster Recovery
ARCserve and Computer Associates Disaster Recovery provide and end-to-end disaster recovery solution for Window NT Workstations and Servers. ARCserve’s revolutionary Disaster Recovery Option allows you to regenerate your entire Windows NT system with just a few diskettes. In the case of a disaster, this option eliminates the need to re-install Windows NT and ARCserve during the server restore process. The quick boot procedure helps you get your server data back quickly and easily in just a few simple wizard steps after a disaster strikes. Computer Associates Disaster Recovery will recover a system’s data from a remote backup server, eliminating the need to move the backup device to the local machine. And, as an alternative to collecting and maintaining disaster recovery boot disk sets, ARCserve will create and maintain boot disk information centrally on the ARCserve host. During ARCserve operation, it will verify and update DR boot disk information.

Data Migration Option
ARCserve Data Migration Option for Windows NT provides a comprehensive storage management system. Through graphical menus and drag-and-drop operations, you can easily configure any volume on the Windows NT network for data migration. With the automated capacity management feature, "out-of-disk-space" problems are eliminated completely, providing virtual network storage capabilities. De-migration is transparent to a user accessing data.

Mainframe Backup Option
ARCserve’s Mainframe Backup Option lets you back up your data to MVS mainframe system, utilizing mainframe storage for backup data. Backup Option leverages existing mainframe storage hardware, software and policies to provide secure repository for network backup data.

Enterprise Storage Management
ARCserve for Windows NT Enterprise edition protects the heterogeneous enterprise through optional client agents. Each client agent is written as a native application to ensure that all the unique data, security and configuration elements are captured in the backup process. With the client agents, the network administrator can initiate backup or restoration operations to protect the data on machines throughout the network, all from a central console.

Client Agent for NetWare: Backs up the NetWare data, including bindery and NDS objects.

Client Agent for UNIX: Backs up IBM/AIX, HP-UX, SCO UNIX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun (including SunOS and Solaris), or UnixWare servers and workstations (each sold separately). The client agent protects all data, including permission and ownership rights.

Client Agent for Macintosh: Protects Macintosh files, including all AFP file systems, security data, extended attributes and unique file names.

Client Agent for OS/2: Written as a native OS/2 application, protects all data, including Access Control Lists and extended attributes.

Client Agents for Windows NT, Windows 95 and Windows 3.1x: Backs up and restores files on Windows NT Server or Workstation, Windows 95 and Windows 3.1x Clients attached to the Window NT network. Windows NT Server/Workstation, Windows 95, Windows 3.1x Client Agents are included with the ARCserve Enterprise edition. Single Server edition includes Windows NT, Workstation, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1x Client Agents.

Application Agent Options
If your active databases are critical to the daily operation of your business, ARCserve for Windows NT has agents to protect your essential data. Providing "hot," online backup of the database, even while it is active, ARCserve’s Backup Agents provide completely transparent, online backup of mission-critical data.

Backup Agent for Open Files
Backup Agent for Microsoft SQL
Backup Agent for Oracle Server
Backup Agent for SAP R/3
Backup Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server
Backup Agent for Lotus Notes
Backup Agent for Informix
Backup Agent for OpenIngres

Servers
Compaq ProLiant 7000 Xeon™
Compaq ProLiant 6500 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 6000 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 5500R Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 5500 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 3000R 6/450
Compaq ProLiant 3000 6/450
Compaq ProLiant 1850R
Compaq ProLiant 1600R (100 MHz)
Compaq ProLiant 1600 (100 MHz)
Compaq ProLiant 800 6/350E, 6/400, 6/450 MHz
Compaq ProLiant 400

SMB
Compaq Prosignia 740
Compaq Prosignia 720