The high speed, cross platform, backup and recovery facility that lets you bring distributed data under central control.

 

The reality of multi-vendor environments has greatly increased the complexity and cost of protecting distributed data. Platform specific backup, restore and disaster recovery procedures require significant investment in hardware and staff. File transfer mechanisms not created for this specific purpose require customization and must be continually maintained. Client-server environments often have no centralized control procedures at all.

 

BACKHOME has been created to address the problems of integrating diverse computer architectures such as DEC/VAX, TANDEM, AS/400 and PC/SERVERS into a centralized backup, restore and disaster recovery environment. It allows operations staff to use their primary archiving procedures to protect data on other platforms. BACKHOME has been designed to allow implementation of backup and restore processes in the way best suited to your particular needs. A user-friendly API (application programming interface) allows BACKHOME to be called directly through any application or integrated into any of the popular job scheduling subsystems in the industry. Process flow can be controlled automatically using the BACKHOME feature which conditionally triggers additional operations depending on the outcome of the current process.

BACKHOME is compatible with host based security systems and requires mo modification to the operating system to install. BACKHOME makes optimal use of your available communications facilities. Complex multithreading programming, window counting protocols and single process multiplexing work together to achieve the maximum throughput of your available bandwidth. Finally, BACKHOME can be integrated with other ETI-NET products to support spool to spool print distribution (ANYPRINT!) and complete file transfer (BCOM FS6.2)

Our products include software to handle Network Backup/Restore, File Transfer, and Transaction Switching, as well as a specialized interface to ADSM / TSM servers for users of Tandem fault tolerant systems.

BENEFITS

Simplifies operations by incorporating non-IBM platforms into centralized backup/restore, offsite storage and disaster recovery procedures. Improves utilization of centralized operations staff by reducing requirements for platform specific staffing. Improves utilization of existing channel software. Free disk space by archiving infrequently used files. Extends utilization of high performance tape environments. Easy to install and operate.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

With BACKHOME, no additional system software need be installed. BACKHOME implements the SNA LU 6.2 APPC protocol and supports SNAXLINK, QLLC (X.25) and the standard backup and recovery utilities available with each supported platform.

 

INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE

Installation and training support are available. Maintenance support and product updates are offered as part of a standard license agreement with each product installation.

FEATURES

Integrates non-IBM platforms into centralized backup operations. Operates in conjunction with popular tape library management systems. Operates at channel speed. Allows single backup or restore over multiple lines Allows backup or restore to be defined at the volume or file level Supports many options for file definition including wildcards, dates and exclusion lists. Stores data in original format to allow it to be read directly for disaster recovery purposes. Configurable with host-based security systems. Implemented with minimal operational impact.