Arkeia Software

Arkeia Network Backup - Version 8.1

v8.1rThumbArkeia Network Backup Version 8.1 delivers features to reduce costs, simplify management, and minimize downtime for shared, hosted, or multi-tenant computing infrastructures. Version 8.1 builds on the award winning Arkeia Network Backup Suite of data protection products.

Custom Restore Objects benefit both administrators and end-users by providing them with greater flexibility. Administrators no longer have to be burdened with frequent restore requests, while end-users achieve faster time to recovery by initiating restores at will.

Extensible Reporting minimizes downtime and reduces costs by providing administrators with the information they need to efficiently manage their backup environments. Administrators are able to assess risk and address issues before they become critical. The new reporting features are ideal for managed service providers because they provide a simple path for exporting reports into custom built billing or reporting infrastructure.

Custom Restore Objects

Custom Restore Objects (CRO) grant restoration rights to specific users, which enables them to restore data that they have been given access to without having to bother a backup administrator.

Not only do CROs allow administrators to grant access to unstructured data, but they also allow administrators to grant access to structured data, such as application data and databases. For example, administrators can assign roles to specialized administrators to allow restoration of specific databases, such as MySQL, or applications, such as MS Exchange.  Custom Restore Objects are supported for all Arkeia agents, including:

  • IBM DB2
  • Novell eDirectory
  • Lotus Notes/Domino
  • Open-Xchange
  • LDAP
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft Exchange
  • VMware ESX Server
  • MySQL

By allowing users to restore data at will, restores can be performed at any time without requiring the support of backup administrators

With the ability to manage CROs from not only the GUI, but also the command line, administrators are able to script the creation of CROs for new users or for a large number of existing users.

Screenshot: Custom restore objects configuration


Extensible Reporting

Arkeia Network Backup's new reporting features give administrators further visibility into their backup environment by allowing them to extract a wide range of information on various aspects of their Arkeia Network Backup environment.

Administrators can reduce their costs by executing reports that provide information to help them optimize their media usage.  By performing usage audits administrators are better able to determine which users and/or client machines are exceeding quotas.

Version 8.1 also accommodates for those customers that wish to export the reporting data into their own custom dash-boards.  Version 8.1 offers 4 delivery methods, including:

  • HTML-based e-mail
  • Interactive web GUI
  • Command line interface
  • Export-to-file

 

Arkeia Network Backup version 8.1 also comes standard with 50 preconfigured reports, including:

  • Backup Operations Overview
  • Backup Size by Client
  • Backup Window Report
  • Database and/or Application Backup Overview
  • Performance Summary by Client
  • Risk Assessment for Media
  • Risk Assessment for Clients

 

In addition to the preconfigured reports, administrators have the ability to create custom reports based on the criteria listed below.

Backup Job Information Backup Job Statistics
Backup type Backup size
Date/time started Compression ratio
Date/time ended Data throughput
Drivepack (backup devices) Number of errors
Job status Number of files
Name of backup server Number of warnings
Name of scheduled backup

Level of schedule backup

Media Pools
Savepack (source data)

Expanded Platform Support

Release 8.1 also adds support for the following platforms:

  • AIX 6
  • Fedora 11
  • NetBSD 5.0
  • OpenBSD 4.5
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
  • Microsoft Windows 7

 

What Customers are Saying:


For more than two years we looked for a vendor who could provide customer-specific restore rights for our shared hosting customers,” said Dennis Kittrell, Senior Product Manager at Aplus.net, a managed service provider with more than 100,000 servers under management. “Arkeia Network Backup v8.1 can provide granular restore rights for our customers down to the database grain, ensuring customer-specific security.”