with todays edition of SCO techSTREET we like to inform you about the - BackupEDGE 2.0 Backup and Recovery product for SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare. This product is now available from your SCO distribution partner. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Microlite Backup EDGE 2.0 ============================= SCO Resellers can now buy the Backup and Disaster Recovery product Microlite BackupEDGE 2.0 from their SCO distribution partner. The product supports both SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 and SCO UnixWare 7.1.4 SCO modelnumbers: ---------------- MB2MC: BackupEDGE 2.0 Media Kit and 60-Day License MB2SC: BackupEDGE 2.0 Retail License OSR5/UW7 MB2UC: BackupEDGE 2.0 Upgrade License OSR5/UW7 MB2EC: BackupEDGE 2.0 Encryption Supplement License Licensing and Registration -------------------------- The Microlite License Management system ensures that all clients register their products with Microlite and receive a permanent activation code. The License Manager allows on-line, fax in, or web-based registration for all Microlite BackupEDGE users. Each product is installed in demo/evaluation/unregistered mode and will run for 60 days from the time it is installed. During that time it is necessary to run the Registration/Activation Manager and fill out all of the appropriate information. This information may be sent via electronic mail to Microlite Corporation, may be printed out and faxed, or may be typed into the electronic registration system at http://microlite.com on the World Wide Web. Within 24 business hours (3 Business days), a return fax with a Permanent Activation Code will be provided. The Registration/Activation manager must be run again and Permanent/Activation Code typed in, which will permanently activate BackupEDGE for the registering company and system. Typical turn around time for legible activations is less than half of one business day. In addition to the base product, the BackupEDGE License Manager supports features-based licensing. The only feature that is currently optional is Encryption. Support ------- Microlite Corporation will provide one year of telephone support for registered users, along with unlimited email support (to support@microlite.com) Monday to Friday, between the hours of 8am and 6pm (EST). Introduction ------------ Microlite BackupEDGE provides backup, restore and disaster recovery capabilities for SCO UnixWare and OpenServer systems. It has many "best-in-class" features and benefits, including storage format, integrity checking, compression, device support, scheduling, disaster recovery and strong data encryption. It provides a consistent method for protecting client systems, and enables partners to create more competitive solutions by supporting more storage device types than any other product. BackUp Edge 2.0 Features: ------------------------- * User Interface The user interface renders itself in one of three ways: - As a Java(tm) Interface on an X11 Desktop. - As a Web Services Interface to any PC with a Java-enabled browser. - As a standard character interface. All functions work identically in both character and graphical mode. Custom themes and colors may be designed. * Device Support Traditional tape drives, autoloaders, changers and libraries - CD-R/RW devices. - All DVD and DVD-Multi devices and formats, including DVD-RAM/-R/ RW/+R/+RW. - The New Iomega(r) REV(tm) devices. * Installation An Installation Wizard detects and configures tape drives, libraries, autochangers, CD, DVD and REV drives automatically. A default backup schedule (full system backup) is created. A scan for virtual/sparse files may be performed. * Flexible Scheduler Domains are "things to be protected". The default Domain is "the entire system". Additional Domains may be created for purpose-built backups. Examples might be "the accounting system" or "the source code directories". Domains can define before and after backup "actions", files/directories to be excluded, and more. The Scheduler allows easy creation and protection of multiple Domains. * Multiple Backup Types Master Backups (backup everything), Differential Backups (backup everything since the last Master Backup) and Incremental Backups (backup everything since the last Differential Backup or last Incremental Backup) are all supported. * Strong Encryption Option BackupEDGE uses 256-bit AES data encryption to secure data. Each archive has its own randomly generated encryption key, which itself is encrypted and protected by a 2048 bit public/private key pair. Choose to encrypt either selected critical files, or entire archives. Full integration ensures that no other product functionality is lost when using encryption. * Powerful Compression Backups to optical media and legacy or low-priced tape drives place special demands on backup software. BackupEDGE has powerful ZLIB based compression capable of storing far more data per archive than competing products. Fully integrated, including with encryption, it is even beneficial when using devices with hardware compression. * TapeAlert(tm) Support Many tape drives support the industry standard TapeAlert diagnostics system. BackupEDGE detects and reports TapeAlert messages, allowing device and media errors to be dealt with before any critical data is lost. * Fast File Restore(tm) / Instant File Restore(tm) Files and directories may be restored at maximum possible speed, as BackupEDGE can directly manipulate tape devices with Quick File Access capabilities, or CD, DVD and REV devices with direct access commands, to provide the industry's fastest available one-pass restores. * Archive Verification An un-verified backup is not a backup at all. BackupEDGE combines full file checksum verification (can be done anytime) with the ability to do a byte-by-byte comparison between archived files and original files, ensuring that archived data will be there when needed. * Disaster Recovery BackupEDGE comes bundled with RecoverEDGE(tm), our bare-metal disaster recovery component. RecoverEDGE allows a system to be recovered from a hard disk failure or other catastrophic data loss without having to re-install the operating system, add device drivers, etc. Simply boot from the media (created on the system with the kernel and the system configuration) into the RecoverEDGE disaster recovery menu system and automatically (or manually if desired) configure the hard drives and restore data from the last backup. Fully supports restores from encrypted archives. * Boot Media Choices BackupEDGE can create boot media on floppy diskettes, CD, DVD and REV media. These work directly with the system backups to recover systems. * Bootable Backups Create nightly system backups, which are fully bootable for disaster recovery on CD, DVD and REV media. If the tape device supports OBDR(tm) or DRTape(tm), bootable nightly backup tapes can also be made. More informations about the product are available at the SCO Partner CD or the Microlite Webpage (www.microlite.com)