BakBone is pleased to announce the following product updates!

 NetVault: SmartDisk’s post-process deduplication option can be scheduled outside the backup window to shrink backup windows with no additional impact on protected server resources. Integration with NetVault: Backup’s job-level deduplication and encryption enables users to separate deduplicated from non-deduplicated data while enabling primary copies to be deduplicated so encryption can be performed only on the secondary copy that is stored offsite.

 Please note that NetVault: SmartDisk v1.0 is only compatible with NetVault: Backup v8.5, so you will need to upgrade to NVBU v8.5 to take advantage of NetVault: SmartDisk capabilities.

  NetVault^®: Backup v8.5
This is a major release that offers extended platform, file system and NDMP support, many new features, maintenance fixes, new security options and enhanced virtualization protection options. You’ll receive the following when you upgrade to NVBU v8.5:

 New Platform Support ─ Support for the following has been added to help you take advantage of the latest versions of the latest platforms:

• Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2008 Foundation, Windows 2008 Storage Server, Windows 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
• CentOS 5.3
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
• Ubuntu 8.10 Debian 5
• Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)

New File System Support ─ Support for the following File Systems has been added to v8.5:

• Ext4 on Linux platforms
• GFS/GFS2 on Linux platforms
• XSan2 on Mac OS X platforms

Maintenance Fixes
NetVault: Backup v8.5 includes maintenance fixes to further increase stability as well as improvements to existing features such as Global Notification, Logging and Command Line Interfaces.

Security
NetVault: Backup Encryption Plugin v2.0 Standard Algorithm Option gives you greater flexibility:

• Ability to only encrypt secondary copies while primary backup remains unencrypted. This enables users to take advantage of disk-based backup to enable faster restores while the encrypted secondary copies are targeted to remote disk-based backup devices or physical tape libraries whose tapes are stored offsite for disaster recovery purposes
• Job level encryption increases flexibility by giving users control over exactly which data is encrypted and which data is not    
• Expands encryption support to high availability environments by offering encryption support for:
  • Clustered File System
  • SQL Server Failover Clusters
  • Exchange Server Single Copy Cluster (SCC) or Failover Clusters
  • Exchange Server Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) environments

Enhanced Virtualization Protection
With Hyper-V Plugin v1.0, BakBone continues to deliver on its strategy of simplified data protection for virtual environments with the introduction of the NetVault: Backup Hyper-V Plugin. Hyper-V Plugin v1.0 is only supported with NVBU v8.5.

• Consolidation of virtual machine protection into a single NetVault: Backup environment to offer users simple centralized backup and recovery of virtual and physical environments from one console
• Online protection of Windows-based virtual machines running VSS aware applications such as Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint
• Ability to perform image-level backups for disaster recovery and Windows Guest OS file-level backups for faster file-level recovery

NDMP Plugin v7.1.1
NDMP Plugin v7.1.1 is now available and includes support for the following new NAS devices:

• BlueArc BOS 6.x
• ONStor 4.0.x
• NetApp ONTAP 8.0 (Mode 7)
• Hitachi HDS Essential NAS v6.0 and later
• Isilon Backup Accelerator 5.5.x

This release is only compatible with v8.5. If you need support for one of these Filers, you will have to upgrade to NVBU v8.5.

NetVault^®: Backup APM for Exchange Server v4.1
NetVault: Backup APM for Exchange Server v4.1 adds a number of enhancements and fault fixes as well as new features such as:

• Additional options for LCR and CCR enabled Exchange databases
• Compatibility with the NetVault: Backup Encryption Plugin in Exchange Clustered Environments
• Compatibility with Ontrack PowerControls for individual mailbox and message recovery

Please note that Version 4.1 of the Exchange Server APM is only compatible with NetVault: Backup v8.5, so you will need to upgrade to NVBU v8.5 to take advantage of these new features.

Upgrades 
Upgrade to NetVault: Backup 8.5 at no cost if your maintenance contract is current. Not only will you ensure that your existing product is optimized to run at the greatest level of efficiency, you will be ready to take advantage of the new features and products. 

If you need to renew your maintenance contract or to check on the status of your maintenance contract, please contact us.
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16th December 2009