NetVault Backup

Quest Netvault Backup™
Stable release 8.6.1 / November 2011
Operating system Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS X
Type Backup
License Proprietary
Website www.quest.com

NetVault is a set of data protection solutions developed and supported by Quest Software (NASDAQQSFT). Its flagship product, NetVault Backup is a cross-platform, enterprise-level backup and recovery software solution. It can be used to protect data and software applications in physical and virtual environments from one central management interface. An enterprise solution, it supports many server, application platforms and protocols such as UNIX, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, NDMP, Oracle ACSLS, IBM DAS/ACI, Microsoft Exchange Server, DB2, Informix, MySQL, Lotus Domino, and Teradata.

Quest offers additional components that complement NetVault Backup. These offer near-instant recovery of applications, continuous data protection (CDP), bare metal recovery (BMR), host-based replication, data deduplication, and protection for NAS filers (NDMP).

Quest Software acquired the full line of NetVault data protection products through its purchase of BakBone Software in 2011. It was the twenty-second acquisition for Quest since 1998.[1]

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Product details

NetVault Backup is based on a client-server architecture. A central NetVault Backup Server provides the job management, media management, device management, client management, reporting, notifications and logging functions. The NetVault Backup Server maintains a history of backups in the NetVault Backup database, enabling users to identify the object(s) they want to restore. NetVault Clients are “agents” that work with the NetVault Backup Server to back up and recovery the respective servers, applications and data. The client software is installed on each machine to be protected. The NetVault Console enables centralized administration of a NetVault Backup Server from any workstation within the network.

NetVault supports tape drives, tape libraries and other backup devices attached to the central server itself or to a protected machine located anywhere on the network, enabling LAN-free backups. Additionally, devices can be controlled through NDMP if they are attached to a supported filer.

NetVault Backup Server 8.5.3 (the master backup server) can be deployed on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP-UX.

Platform and application support

NetVault Backup can protect Windows Server, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP-UX, Hyper-V, VMware and NetWare (using a thin client).[2] It also can back up a variety of applications and NAS devices (NDMP) using so-called Plug-ins. The list includes Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Exchange Server, Lotus Notes, DB2, Sybase, and others.

Components

There are five options within the Quest NetVault suite, enabling backup and recovery to disk or tape, instant recovery, continuous data protection (CDP), bare metal recovery (BMR), host-based replication, and data deduplication:

NetApp options

Quest supports NetApp solutions with the following NetVault technologies:

Disk targets

Originally NetVault Backup was intended to back up to physical tapes in tape drives. However, the product was soon extended to support backup to a Virtual Tape Library or VTL. This technology is allows writing backup data to disk for permanent storage or later duplication to tape.

NetVault Backup supports LAN-free backups, which can write to a physical tape drive or VTL that is shared between multiple machines using Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

Quest now offers NetVault SmartDisk to complement NetVault Backup. NetVault SmartDisk performs post-processing data deduplication. It represents a contiguous storage pool on disk without being subdivided into virtual tapes or slots for easier management and allows for byte-level, variable block-based software deduplication.

History

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References

  1. ^ "Quest Plans $55M Acquisition Of Data Protection Vendor BakBone". CRN. 10 Nov 2010. http://www.crn.com/news/storage/228200677/quest-plans-55m-acquisition-of-data-protection-vendor-bakbone.htm. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 
  2. ^ "NetVault Backup Compatibility Guide". Quest Software. 2011-07-12. http://www.quest.com/Quest_Site_Assets/PDF/NetVault_Backup_Compatibility_Guide.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-12. 
  3. ^ "NetVault Platform Gains Backup Muscle". eWEEK. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/NetVault-Platform-Gains-Backup-Muscle/1/. Retrieved 28 July 2011. 
  4. ^ "Quest to acquire BakBone for $55 million". Infostor. http://www.infostor.com/backup-and_recovery/disk-based-backup/2010/quest-to-acquire-bakbone-for-55-million.html. Retrieved 15 July 2011. 

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