Product Information
Seagate Backup Exec™ for NetWare provides reliable, easy to use data protection for your entire network. Seagate Backup Exec’s integrated tape database requires no third party applications, and our workstation and server-based clients allows you to manage the system easily, while providing cost-effective backup, with extensive multi-platform support.

Seagate Backup ExecTM for NetWare simplifies and automates enterprise-wide backup, with extensive multi-platform support. Seagate Backup Exec fully protects your NetWare, Windows NT, and LAN Server servers, as well as DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2 and UNIX workstations. Seagate Backup Exec offers unmatched reliability for enterprise-wide data protection.
 

Seagate Backup Exec for NetWare is available in a Single Server and an Enterprise Edition, and provides unmatched performance, reliability, and ease-of-use for cross-platform data protection.
 

Features and Benefits

• Provides storage management services (SMS) support - Full SMS compatibility provides scaleable growth capabilities to meet your network's changing needs, no matter how complex they may become.
• Protects NetWare data and namespace information - Provides comprehensive data protection ­ including all objects and containers within NetWare Directory Services (NDS) and extended Schema.
• Automatically reroutes backup jobs - Fault-tolerant backup processing maintains backup integrity by rerouting backup jobs in the event of system, media or device error.
• Optimizes backup performance - Seagate Backup Exec helps manage a maximum of 28-jobs simultaneously, with automatic redirection to the next available tape for maximum data protection performance.
• Reduces backup time - STAC LZS data compression and Seagate Software's exclusive Agent Accelerator technology make Backup Exec the fastest data protection solution for your NetWare network.

Automated Backup Eases Administrative Pressures

Because regularly scheduled backups are the best way to ensure reliable data protection, Seagate Backup Exec fully automates network backups with a comprehensive scheduling system with true, unattended operation. Point-and-Click scheduling allows you to protect your servers and workstations easily. You can schedule backups to run transparently while systems are in use or during off-hours when files are closed and accessible. Seagate Backup Exec keeps a watchful eye on your network - with its Smart Client technology that detects impending hardware failures on Windows 95-based Compaq systems and automatically initiates an unattended backup to protect the systems data.

Delivers Data Protection that Fits Your Network

Seagate Backup Exec for NetWare delivers complete data protection right out of the box. Designed to administer multiple tape systems across a full range of NetWare 3 or 4 environments, Seagate Backup Exec is available in several editions. Seagate Backup Exec Enterprise Edition offers a unique scalable design that allows you to manage your backups no matter how large your network grows. It protects an unlimited number of NetWare, Windows NT, LAN Server and Lotus Notes servers, as well as DOS, Windows, Windows 95 to one backup server, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2 and UNIX clients. By protecting all your servers and clients, a single investment in Seagate Backup Exec can protect your entire network.Seagate Backup Exec is also available in editions scaled for smaller businesses or workgroups. The Single Server Unlimited Edition protects one NetWare server and an unlimited number of DOS, Windows and Windows 95 workstations. And Seagate Backup Exec Single Server 25-User Edition protects a single NetWare server with a NetWare server license for up to 25 users, as well as protecting an unlimited number of DOS, Windows and Windows 95 workstations. Backup Exec gives you the ability to select the edition that's the most cost-effective for your environment.

Maximizes System Performance for Faster Backups

Seagate Software realizes that as your network grows, your backup window shrinks. Seagate Backup Exec's exclusive Agent AcceleratorTM technology with data compression makes it the best backup solution for your NetWare 3 and 4 networks. And, you can automatically direct backup jobs to the "next available" tape system for processing, maximizing performance. In addition, Seagate Backup Exec's fault-tolerant concurrent job processing, lets you run up to 28 devices simultaneously - completing backups faster and more reliably than you ever thought possible.

Backup Features

• Open and Skipped File Processing - Allows skip or retry handling of open files so skipped files can be logged and backed up at later time.
• Background Operation - Seagate Backup Exec runs transparently while system is active for  uninterrupted system use.
• Pre and Post Command Support - Initiates user-defined console commands before and/or after a backup.
• Multiple Backup Methods - Allows Normal, Incremental, Differential and Copy capabilities for improved flexibility.
• Provides a "Percentage of Unused Tape Remaining"  - This new feature allows users to better predict how full their tapes are becoming, to allow them to best manage their backup system, so that unattended backups are not stalled by insufficient tape capacity for the backup.

• Read Compatible - The ability to read tapes created by ARCserve 4, 5 & 6 and SIDF tape formats, makes transitioning from ARCserve easy and safe.
• File Grooming - Enables you to restore directories containing data, while excluding empty directories.
• Disc/Tape-Based Catalog - Provides on-demand locator information for file access and full/partial catalog.Management Features
• Windows NT workstation client - This new capability allows flexible installation and management for accounts standardized on Windows NT Workstation who may not have access to a Windows 3.x or Windows 95 system for installing and maintaining the backup system.
• Job status and results can be sent via Novell's MHS or GroupWise - Backup Exec for NetWare provides  the flexibility to e-mail job completion status as well as job detail results.
• Novell NWAdmin support - Seagate Backup Exec for NetWare v7.5 supports both the 16 and 32 bit         versions of Novell's NWAdmin network administration program, providing a single tool to administer the server and the backup system from a single console, allowing the user to launch Backup Exec to administer the backup system directly from the NWAdmin console simply by clicking on an icon.
• Support for TapeAlertTM technology - For supported tape drives and autoloaders, the drive can communicate directly with Backup Exec and inform the user when the drive is operating in a degraded state, but has not yet failed. This increases reliability of the backup process by predicting failures before they actually occur, and decreases administrator burden by allowing them to plan hardware maintenance before the problem becomes critical.
• Now supports HP OpenView for Unix - This new feature allows Backup Exec to send SNMP traps to HP OpenView for Unix management consoles.
• Agent Accelerator now supports TCP/IP protocol as well as SPX - For environments that have standardized on the TCP/IP protocol, this capability prevents the administrator from having to install Novell's proprietary SPX protocol on the remote servers they want to protect.
• Support for IBM ADSM (Option) - This feature allows Backup Exec to operate with IBM's ADSM system for data storage, providing mainframe-level hardware protection of user data, while still maintaining administration and control of the backup process at the server level.
• User can manually select to extend the schema to support Backup Exec - This new capability prevents the user from having to completely re-run the installation process to create the NDS schema extensions when the user initially installs Backup Exec without sufficient rights by allowing the user to easily add the necessary schema extensions for Backup Exec after the installation is complete.
• Support for Low Admin Backup Mode (LABM) - LABM totally automates weekly backups in single server environments using a tape autoloader to provide reliable, hands-off backup, with automatic error recovery, automatic head cleaning, and automated tape management.
• Windows-Browser/installer - This eliminates the requirement for a CD-ROM drive on the server and allows Backup Exec to be easily installed on the server remotely from the workstation.

Hardware/Software Requirements

NetWare:

• Novell NetWare 3.11 and 4.01 or later
• 4 MB RAM over server requirements, 14 MB disc space
• Compatible tape device and controller

• MS-DOS 5.0 and above
• Novell DOS v7, PC DOS v6.3 and v7.0,
• 580 KB free conventional RAM, 1.5 MB disc space (client); 35 KB RAM*, .20 MB disc space (agent)

• Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups v3.11 and Windows 95
• 3 MB disc space (client); 35 KB RAM*, .20 MB disc space (agent)

• OS/2 v2.0, v2.1, WARP v3.0, and WARP Connect, LAN Server 2 and 4.2
• .5 MB RAM, 4.0 MB disc space (client); .25 MB disc space (agent)

• System 7.x using the ADSP (AppleTalk) interface

• SCO UNIX r3.2 - v4.x
• Interactive 3.2
• SUN OS 4.1x
• UnixWare 1.x, 2.01
• SUN Solaris 2.3
• HP/UX 9.05, 10.01
• IBM AIX 3.2.5, 4.1
• SCO Open Server r5 - v5.0.0
• .15 MB disk space (agent)

• Windows NT v3.1, v3.5, v3.51 and v4.0
• .20 MB disc space (agent)

• Oracle for NetWare 7.0 and 7.1,
• 1.5 MB RAM, .65 MB disk space (agent)

Media Format

• CD-ROM

• Cheyenne ARCserve for NetWare DOS Edition (Read)
• Cheyenne ARCserve for NetWare Windows Edition (Read)
• SIDF ECMA-208 (Read)
• Microsoft Tape Format (Read/Write)

• Most DC6000, DLT, QIC, 4mm, and 8mm SCSI tape drives and autoloaders manufactured by ADIC, Aiwa, Archive, Conner, DEC, Exabyte, HP, IBM, Iomega, Maynard, Seagate, Sony, Tandberg, WangDAT, Wangtek and others.

• Most Adaptec, BusLogic, Conner, Dell, DPT, Future Domain, IBM, Ultra Stor and other ASPI-compliant controllers. (Requires ASPI Manager)

Seagate Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option provides fast, reliable, and easy-to-use recovery for your server after hardware or system failure. Seagate Software recognizes time is critical when your server is down, and our Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option can help you rebuild your server, whether it's a single failed disc drive or an entire server - with a minimum of user input.

Seagate Backup Exec Advanced Autoloader Option for NetWare is a powerful add-on feature that significantly enhances your data protection capabilities for true unattended backup operations. The Advanced Autoloader Module enables you to establish groups of tapes within the device magazine - thus enabling you to direct data to user-defined groups. You can identify groups of tapes with user-defined names, and segment data backups for enterprise-wide and user-directed backups.

Open File Manager™ Option provides uninterrupted data protection for network environments that must remain accessible 24 hours-a-day/7-days-a-week. Using an innovative approach to open file backup, Open File Manager provides protection for active e-mail, database, and other data files even while information is being entered or changed by users ­ for guaranteed data security, integrity and reliability. Designed to be fully NetWare compatible ­ Open File Manager runs at the operating system level, and supports the entire family of Seagate Backup Exec, Storage Manage, and Seagate Backup Director products. Must have NetWare 3.1x or 4.x server, or Windows 3.1x, Windows 95, or Windows NT Workstation client.

Seagate Backup Exec ADSM Option allows network administrators to access the full line of IBM mid-range/ mainframe hardware and Advanced Data Storage Management software through Seagate Backup Exec's NetWare and Windows NT solutions. Seagate Backup Exec uses the ADSM system as a large data storage device, and allows backups to be automatically routed to the ADSM system just as if it were a large tape library or autoloader. Multiple servers and workstations can all be protected using the ADSM option, and any number of Backup Exec systems can simultaneously connect to one ADSM system. Requires support for ADSF v2.0 or greater. Must have support for ADSM v2.0 or greater Backup Exec for NetWare 7.5 or greater.

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