Screenshot of ARCserve Backup r15 Manager |
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| Initial release | February 1990[1] |
| Stable release | ARCserve r15 [2] / May 5, 2010[2] |
| Development status | Active |
| Available in | English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese and Cantonese |
| Type | Backup software |
| License | Commercial proprietary software |
| Website | www.arcserve.com |
CA ARCserve is a proprietary backup software product currently developed by CA Technologies ARCserve has a long history, and was originally released by Cheyenne Software in 1990.[3] Today, the CA ARCserve family of products is one of the largest ISV developed backup software products in the market,[4] and is made up of ARCserve Backup, ARCserve D2D, ARCserve Replication and ARCserve High Availability products. The product family currently supports a wide variety of platforms and applications, with support for advanced features such as Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) to dissimilar Hardware, Cross platform SAN Support for Linux/UNIX servers, Data Deduplication, Virtual Server support, server mirroring and automatic failover for protection of remote branch offices through WAN Optimized Replication and provides a Visual diagram of the backup infrastructure in addition to extensive data reporting.[5]
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ARCserve was first developed and released by Cheyenne Software Inc in the February 1990 as a product used to backup other software programs and to ensure that data in the network could not be lost. The major function of the first release was to automatically copy all the information in the system so that mishaps such as power failures and equipment malfunctions would not destroy or erase it. During the early nineties ARCserve became Cheyenne's flagship product with massive growth in sales. Cheyenne brought out an improved version of its core program ARCserve in 1993 and began distribution through Original Equipment Manufacturers(OEM). During the mid nineties Cheyenne continued to release a series of new ARCserve products tailored specifically for different market segments such as Macintosh and Windows users.[6] Software major CA Technologies, which was then known as Computer Associates acquired Cheyenne in 1996 and continued to develop and market the ARCserve product under the same brand.[7]
ARCserve 1.0 was released in February 1990 to back up network data to optical drives.
ARCserve 2.0 ran only under NetWare 2x, Novell’s VAP OS. But Novell's VAP Operating system was quickly replaced by an NLM based Operating system. The whole product fit on a single 1.2 mb diskette.
ARCserve 3.0 was released in 1991 as NLM only and came on two 1.2mb diskettes.
ARCserve 3.0b was an update over the previous version ARCserve 3.0
ARCserve Windows 1.0 was the first version of ARCserve that was released for the Windows Operating System platform. It worked on Windows NT 3.5 and later on Windows NT 3.51
ARCserve Backup r11.1 came in four packages based on the Operating System on which the ARCserve Backup Server was to be installed.
ARCserve Backup r11.5 came in three separate packages based on the Operating Systems on which the ARCserve Backup Server was to be installed.
ARCserve Backup r12 introduced support for VMware Virtualization technology.
ARCserve Backup r12.5 was a release that enhanced the Virtualization capabilities of the product and introduced Deduplication as a part of the base product.
New Features in ARCserve Backup r12.5:
The ARCserve r15 release provides a varied range of enhancements to the existing ARCserve and XOsoft (renamed ARCserve Replication and High Availability r15) products and launches a new disk-based backup product called CA ARCserve D2D. The products are also repackaged into the ARCserve family of products providing better integration among existing products and with the new CA ARCserve D2D product. With the current release CA ARCserve Backup r15 integrates with CA ARCserve D2D r15, CA ARCserve Replication r15 and CA ARCserve High Availability r15(previously known as CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability) to incorporate enhanced disk based capabilities and protection for data in remote branch offices within ARCserve.[8]
The ARCserve r15 Family consists of the following products:
This is the current version of the flagship ARCserve Backup product. With this release, CA addresses the cross platform SAN environments present within its customer base, thereby also providing a migration path for customers with UNIX and Linux based environment towards a Windows backup server. Also, the Infrastructure Visualization feature that is added provides a visual representaion of the entire backup environment. This coupled with enhancements in the Backup and SRM (Storage Resource Management) Reports in the ARCserve Dashboard makes for strong reporting capabilities.
Operating systems:
The CA ARCserve Backup r15 Base is not supported on the following Operating Systems, however the Manager Console, Client Agent for Windows, Agent for Virtual Machines and Open File Agent are Supported:
CA ARCserve D2D r15 is an exclusive disk based backup product introduced into the CA ARCserve family of products as a part of the ARCserve r15 release. It takes a single full backup of the machine or a volume and subsequently only does Incremental backups indefinitely. This is done using CA's patented I^2(Infinite Incrementals) Technology which allows Block Level Infinite Incremental Backups after an initial single full backup. It thereafter provides a consolidated point in time view of the protected volume to enable multiple recovery points. ARCserve D2D allows application consistent snapshot backups and simplifies Disaster Recovery by allowing Bare Metal Recovery to dissimilar hardware.[9]
Operating Systems:
CA ARCserve Replication r15 was known as CA XOsoft in its previous release. ARCserve Replication r15 does asynchronous real time replication of file and application data. The software is a Host based replication tool that is optimized for WAN links. The production server being protected is called the Master Server in CA ARCserve Replication terminology. The mirrored server at the disaster recovery site on a WAN or LAN is called the Replica Server. The Replica is a stand-by server that can be configured to service user requests through a manual failover.
Operating Systems:
CA ARCserve High Availabilty r15 was known as CA XOsoft High Availability until its previous release. The product is an add-on to CA ARCserve Replication r15 and serves to eliminate downtime that users experience by redirecting requests to a Replica Server when the Master Server is unavailable to service the request.The users typically are not effected and do not realize that a redirection took place. Failover and failback can be automated using ARCserve High Availability r15.2
Operating Systems: