The Industry's First System Recovery Tool for S/390 Linux
Innovation Data Processing, a market leader in storage management products,
has announced a powerful and unique addition to the FDR/UPSTREAM Storage
Management Tool. FDR/UPSTREAM is the industry's first and only complete
backup and restore solution with Disaster Recovery for S/390 Linux.
The newest version of FDR/UPSTREAM 3.2.1 available in January, 2003
introduces the S/390 Linux Rescuer, a Stand Alone System Recovery facility
for SuSE S/390 Linux systems.
FDR/UPSTREAM now has been enhanced to include in the file-level backup
all file types in the system. This involved adding FIFOs and device
files to complement UPSTREAM's existing support for all other UNIX file
types (hard links, symbolic links). UPSTREAM will also now incorporate
in the backup with no special setup or consideration, knowledge of file
system demarcation points and some general information about each of
these file systems. It's easy and simple to use since all of this information
is incorporated transparently in the backup and does not negatively
affect backup performance. A file specification /* is all that is required
to backup the entire system with the system fully online and FDR/UPSTREAM
will also take all the performance advantage of HiperSockets.
At disaster recovery time, the customer will boot the single-user disaster
recovery facility from the operating system vendor. The user will then
manually activate network communications and disk access if the operating
system does not do this automatically. The user will then define and
mount the disk devices.
Using communications support (ftp, nfs, etc.), the UPSTREAM software
is copied to the system, installed on the RAM disk and run. An initial
FDR/UPSTREAM panel is brought up, displaying file systems available
for recovery, the user simply and easily can then start the restore
of all of the files in the file system by hitting the start button,
restoring everything including the file system, device drives and applications.
FDR/UPSTREAM is a complete storage management solution for corporate
data distributed across a heterogeneous network. FDR/UPSTREAM provides
enterprise-wide storage management for a variety of platforms including
Novell, Windows, Linux, UNIX Servers and Workstations using the
z/OS or OS/390 MVS mainframes
as the backup server.
The S/390 Linux Rescuer disaster recovery facility complements FDR/UPSTREAM's
extensive and comprehensive features such as backup/restore, file transfer,
file migration, non-disruptive online database agents and disaster recovery
vaulting with centrally administered profile policy management.
FDR/UPSTREAM's support for S/390 Linux including advanced UNIX file
system specific features include hard links, symbolic links, owners,
single file system support, support for Reiser file system as well as
ext2, ext3, XFS and remote NFS attachments. UPSTREAM provides a variety
of user interfaces including the "Director", an Explorer-like
graphical management and administrative interface that can be run from
virtually anywhere in the enterprise.
Innovation with this release once again demonstrates its superiority
in product design and implementation. With a worldwide customer base
and 30 years experience in backup, restore, hierarchical storage management
and disaster recovery, Innovation is internationally recognized for
non-disruptive backups and its inventiveness in this market segment.
Further information about Innovation, its products and services, can
be obtained from the Innovation home page at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com
or e-mail us at sales@fdrinnovation.com
