CA ARCserve Backup 15 for Windows Agent Microsoft SQL Server Upgrade

CA ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft SQL provides efficient backup and restore of SQL Server 2005 databases, while they're in use, by enabling CA ARCserve Backup to send and retrieve data to and from the SQL Server.This agent ensures complete data and transactional integrity by performing consistency checks on all physical and logical links before and after each backup and restore operation.It remotely manages backups of SQL Server databases and performs online database backups using the SQL Server dynamic dump utility. CA ARCserve ARCserve Backup Agent for Microsoft SQL provides flexible scheduling capabilities and is compatible with a wide range of tape storage devices.

CA ARCserve Backup 15 offers world-class data protection for distributed servers, databases and applications, as well as clients for multiple environments, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, NetWare, Mac OS, and mainframe Linux. With its wide range of powerful, easy-to-use data protection tools, CA ARCserve Backup ensures the integrity and availability of your most important asset -- data. CA ARCserve Backup -- powerful, easy-to-use data protection.

With extensive management features that work together to help reduce the time you spend managing your backups, CA ARCserve Backup provides "enterprise class" functionality optimized to support your business no matter how simple or complex your data or your IT infrastructure is. CA ARCserve Backup helps you quickly prepare for, respond to and recover from the disasters and disruptions that would otherwise threaten the integrity and reliability of your business operations.

Key Benefits

• Data deduplication to reduce your backup storage by over 80%.
• Infrastructure visualization to quickly manage your entire environment.
• SRM reporting to proactively avoid problems before they cause unplanned downtime.
• Data protection for both physical and virtual servers in a single money saving tool.
• Granular restore of Active Directory objects and applications like Exchange and SharePoint for fast recovery.

CA ARCserve Backup helps you maximize the performance, efficiency and effectiveness of your backup and recovery strategy. Be confident that your business will have safe and protected data so it can keep running at the speed it needs to keep one step ahead.

CA ARCserve Backup Features
CA ARCserve Backup delivers industry-leading, enterprise-class data protection for a wide range of operating environments. It features:

• Integrated Data Deduplication -- Improves the economics of backup and recovery by enabling longer retention periods, providing a cost-effective means of reducing storage, protecting critical data and integrating, configuring and managing data deduplication in the existing backup environment.


• Virtualize Servers with Confidence -- Incorporate sophisticated backup and recovery functionality into VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer virtualization technologies - easing management and mitigating the risk of data on virtualized servers.


• Dashboard with SRM Reporting -- Offers graphical insight into your backup environment to monitor the status of all backup activities, find the nodes that are taking the longest, locate backed up data, discover if data is encrypted and ready for disaster recovery and track volume, disk and memory usage on each of your production servers.


• Centralized Management and Administration -- Utilizes a three-tier architecture that allows administrators to manage, modify and control backup and restore jobs, media devices, activity logs, alerts, catalogs, product licensing and reports from a single point that spans local and remote servers and locations.


• Advanced Backup and Restore Support -- Employs specific agents to support your core applications - including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Oracle, Lotus Domino, SAP R/3 and Sybase - and helps you ensure data integrity by protecting the transaction log, archive log and journal files and all associated data.


• Flexible Backup Methods -- Include backup to disk, backup to tape, D2D2T backup, VTL and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service snapshot support, hardware snapshot support, multiplexing and multi- streaming - which work in concert to provide you with high-performance, non-disruptive backup and restore operations that help meet the specific needs of your mission-critical information and data assets.


• Efficient Backup Processes -- Feature patent-pending data deduplication and SRM reporting functionality that help eliminate redundant data and reduce storage costs, enabling you to store more recovery points on a given disk and provide actionable information that helps you improve the performance and reliability of your backup, storage and server environment.


• CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability Integration -- Enables you to browse and back up replicated data, restore data to the production or replica server, create synthetic full backups, view CA ARCserve Replication and HA reports and launch the CA ARCserve Replication and HA graphical user interface (GUI) from within the CA ARCserve Backup GUI.


• Wan Bandwidth-Optimized Remote Office Backups -- Enables you to replicate remote office data to your central data center and perform non-disruptive replica server backups designed to eliminate the need to implement a tape-based backup solution at your recovery sites - helping you better utilize your existing backup resources and save time and money.


• Smart Restore Capability -- Redirects restore jobs to other media containing the same data without any manual intervention, reducing the chances that errors will negatively affect recovery processes.


• Flexible Deployment -- Available as individual components, suites based on server type and suites based on capacity to meet your specific needs and purchasing requirements, making it incredibly easy to buy.

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