IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...

Tivoli
Tivoli Software
Tivoli Software is the service management brand of the IBM Software Group. IBM purchased Austin-based Tivoli Systems, Inc. on March 4, 1996 and allowed existing executive management to operate Tivoli as a wholly owned subsidiary in the IBM Software Group...

Storage Manager Fastback (TSM FastBack) is a storage software solution that provides a continuous data protection and recovery management platform for Windows servers and applications that run on Windows, such as Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...

, Microsoft SQL

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

, Lotus Domino

IBM Lotus Domino

Lotus Domino is an IBM server product that provides enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities, and a custom application platform. Domino began life as Lotus Notes Server, the server component of Lotus Development Corporation's client-server messaging technology. It can be used as an...

, Oracle, DB2

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

, and others.

Designed to provide a data protection and recovery solution for mission-critical applications, in the data center or remote branch offices, for enterprises and small businesses. TSM FastBack can eliminate traditional backup windows by continuously capturing data changes at the block level, with very minimal impact to the systems it helps protect. Its policy-based approach to data protection allows administrators to improve recovery service levels, specifically Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) based on the needs of the individual application or data type. TSM FastBack also provides a near instant restore capability that enables applications to be up and running within minutes after data recovery is initiated, while data recovery is performed in the background.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange

Extends TSM FastBack protection capabilities by allowing quick and easy restore of individual Exchange objects such as e-mail messages and attachments, contact lists, calendars, tasks, journal entries, entire folders, and so forth. TSM FastBack for Microsoft Exchange uses a standard Windows-style GUI to help search for, select and restore the needed objects.
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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery

A solution for Windows that allows users to easily recover entire systems to a comparable server, to a new server with different hardware, or to a virtual machine (VMware

VMware

VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

or Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server is a virtualization solution that facilitates the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Originally developed by Connectix, it was acquired by Microsoft prior to release...

). TSM FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery can also be used for server migration operations, and as a platform for business resilience for remote branch offices.

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center

Combines the three TSM FastBack products into a single package.

Features

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack

Continuous data protection software with near-instant recovery for critical Windows applications.
Data changes are captured at the block level at the time of being written to disk. This eliminates the need for scheduled backups that take applications off-line for a period of time (the “backup window”).
Schedule automated data transfers based on flexible, policy-based settings, helping administrators balance storage and bandwidth costs with data protection and retention requirements, on a per-application basis.
Enable data asset recovery from any Windows application, including Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2 and SAP
SAP AG
SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

.
Make the most effective use of available bandwidth with strategies such as multi-threading, bundling of small files and industry-standard compression.
Operating systems supported: Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...

, Windows Server 2008, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux-based operating system developed by Red Hat and targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is released in server versions for x86, x86-64, Itanium, PowerPC and IBM System z, and desktop versions for x86 and x86-64...

, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a Linux distribution supplied by SUSE and targeted at the business market. It is targeted for servers, mainframes, and workstations but can be installed on desktop computers for testing as well. New major versions are released at an interval of 3-4 years, while...

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Microsoft Exchange

Recover Exchange data from backup copies of the Exchange database (EDB) managed by TSM FastBack or Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is a centralized, policy-based, enterprise class, data backup and recovery package. The software enables the user to insert objects not only via backup, but also through space management and archive tools...

for Mail; and recover non-corrupt objects from a corrupt Exchange Database.
Granular level recovery of any individual data object or group of objects, such as individual e-mail messages, contact lists, tasks, or calendar entries
Drag-and-drop recovery can minimize downtime
Recover objects that were previously considered unrecoverable—such as deleted e-mail messages, or address books lost due to synchronization errors
Restore objects directly to an Exchange Server or to send objects to a user-defined destination via SMTP
Works with Active Directory
Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....

and Exchange Server security to help limit unauthorized access to backup and restore systems
Operating systems supported: Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...

and Windows Server 2008

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Bare Machine Recovery

Enables systems recovery following a disaster or catastrophic server failure
Provides the flexibility of recovering to comparable hardware, to dissimilar hardware or to a virtual machine using VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server
Helps protect remote or branch offices with a disaster recovery and business resiliency strategy that requires a minimum of standby hardware
Leverages TSM FastBack to provide near-instant access to applications and data while full recovery takes place in the background
Facilitates the migration of workloads to new hardware platforms, making it fast and easy to move workloads from old hardware or standalone servers to new hardware or blade servers
Enables organizations to perform bare machine
Bare machine
Bare Machine, in computer parlance, means a computer without its operating system. Modern operating systems evolved through various stages, from elementary to the present day complex, highly sensitive real-time systems. In the very first stage of computing there was nothing like an Operating System...

recovery in a local office, in a data center or in a central recovery site
Operating systems supported: Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...

and Windows Server 2008

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack Center

Provide continuous and automatic data protection, enabling recovery from any point in time
Get applications and users back up and running within minutes following a data loss, while full data recovery is performed in the background
Provide complete bare machine recovery following a disaster or server failure, even to dissimilar hardware or to virtual machines
Recover Microsoft Exchange data within minutes—from individual e-mail messages to entire folders or databases
Operating systems supported: Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...

and Windows Server 2008

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