Backup Product Family

SunSoft has a large product family of server, client, database, and related backup-and-recover software.

Server Products

All Backup clients (and servers, which can function as clients themselves and back up their own data) can be backed up by Backup server software, which runs on the following platforms:

• UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX)

• Windows NT

• NetWare

Backup server products are available in three distinct versions:

• Backup Server Edition enables you to back up a server locally. It supports up to 16 devices concurrently. Backup Server Edition does not include support for additional clients or optional software features such as Backup Archive. If you decide later to purchase a higher level of Backup software, all the data backed up by Backup Server Edition is recoverable by any level of Backup software you purchase.

• Backup NetWork Edition enables you to back up the server and as many client workstations as you purchased client connections for. You can upgrade Backup NetWork Edition to include support for additional clients, as well as optional software features.

• Backup Power Edition is a server software product that has been specially tuned to protect and provide backup for environments that support VLDB (very large database) or large filesystem applications (in the terabyte range). You can upgrade Backup Power Edition to include support for high-speed devices.

Client Products

Some Backup clients are included with the server products. Refer to the Solstice Backup 5.1 Installation and Release Notes for the clients packaged with your particular software package, and for instructions explaining how to install them. Support for platform-specific clients is also sold separately as Backup ClientPak software. Presently, SunSoft produces clients for the following platforms and operating systems:

• UNIX: Solaris, SunOS^TM, HP-UX, IBM AIX, IRIX, SCO UNIX, and UnixWare

• PC Desktops: OS/2 Warp and Microsoft Windows, Windows NT Workstation, and Windows 95

• Windows NT Server

• Novell NetWare/IntranetWare

• Macintosh

Other Products

SunSoft offers other products to enhance your storage management needs:

• The Backup Autochanger Module, which enables you to fully use the automatic backup capabilities of Backup when connected to one or more autochangers.

• The Backup Archive application, which provides you with a sophisticated method to archive valuable data for long-term storage

• The Backup HSM application, which provides a method to automatically move data between different media types and locations, thereby conserving network management resources

• The Backup SNMP module, which allows communication of Backup event notifications to SNMP-compliant network management stations

• The Solstice Database and Application Modules, which reliably back up the most widely used databases, including Microsoft Exchange Server and SQL Server, Oracle, INFORMIX, Lotus Notes and Sybase

Additional server, client, database, and add-on products might become available in the future. The Sun web site (http://www.sun.com/) contains the latest product information.