Here are some selected features:

• Real-time file restoration for faster data recovery
• Security, including AES encryption, passwords, authentication, and delta compression
• Redundant, fault-tolerant RAID 5 storage to ensure data availability 7x24x365
• Automated, unattended backups for improved staff productivity
• Backs up Windows NT/2000/2003, NetWare, all common Unix environments, and VMS
• Advanced backup/restore functionality for all popular email applications, including Exchange, Outlook 2007 and GroupWise
• Multitasking, multithreading operations for increased productivity and speed
• Enhanced administrative efficiencies
• Reporting utilities for planned bandwidth and server upgrades

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Backup Sets - for flexible backups of multiple-platform LAN environments

• Backup options and the backup schedule are user - definable for each backup set.

• Storage Guardian can backup Windows NT^TM2000, NetWare^TM, all common UNIX^TM environments, and VMS^TM.

• Backup Options:
  • Unattended, customizable scheduled backups
  • On-demand backups of individual directories, files, or a backup set
  • Configurable multiple file generations
  • "Buffered" Backup feature for short backup window (Data is backed up from a server to a buffered area and then transmitted from the buffer to the off-site storage vault. This frees up the server for other tasks.)
  • Backup of open files
  • Backup of security and configuration (Windows NT/95/98/2000/2003, NetWare 3.xx, 4.xx, 5.xx, and UNIX)
  • Fast initial backup
  • On-line backup of Microsoft SQL and Microsoft Exchange Servers

• The designated DS-Client machine uses the standard TCP/IP protocol to connect to the off-site DS-System data vault, using either a dedicated or dial-up communications link. This may be via ISDN, PRI, BRI, ATM, Internet, or Modem. Your LAN may be 10/100 Base-T, Token Ring, ATM, or FDDI.

Data Recovery - for fast critical data availability

• Real-time restoration of files over a communications line.
• Alternate restore locations.
• Locked file restoration.
• Truncation of restore path.
• File overwrite and time selection options.
• Options to restore registry, bindery, NDS, and file security.
• Large data volumes at native LAN speeds via portable DS-System.

DS-Client - for simple, hassle-free data management

• This is the backup and recovery software application. This application functions as a "gateway" between your data and the off-site DS-System data storage vault. The DS-Client integrates with your existing network security structure.

• The DS-Client executes as a service on any Windows NT^TM2000 system. It creates, maintains, and deletes backup sets, monitors activities, initiates scheduled backups, and permits user-initiated data recovery. It will browse and backup every computer visible to it on a LAN.

• Because Storage Guardian is an "agentless" application, only one DS-Client is required for your enterprise. So maintenance and troubleshooting diagnosis is limited to a single software installation.

• For larger backup requirements, you can opt to distribute multiple DS-Client applications across your computing environment.

• Multitasking and multithreading operations allow you to perform backup, restore, and delete functions on different data sets simultaneously, increasing productivity.

DS-Delta - for efficient data transfers that conserve bandwidth

• This technology saves one original "master" file at the DS-System data storage vault; subsequent backups send only the binary changes that have occurred to the original file.

• This enhances data security, and reduces data transfer volumes by as much as 99%. It also shortens the backup window, and reduces the amount of bandwidth you require to transfer your data to the off-site DS-System data storage vault.

DS-Library - for "intelligent" data backups

DS-Statistics - for planning and managing equipment purchases, bandwidth upgrades, and network loads before a crisis develops

• Statistics are available per server, group, or individual user.

• The report is useful for equipment and bandwidth planning, and load balancing. It also allows you to estimate the required backup time and cost per GB per month, based on the type of communication line you are using to transfer your data to the DS-System data storage vault.

DS-System - for on-line data storage that's robust, safe, and secure

• The data stored in the DS-System vault is routinely backed up onto different media located at separate premises. This ensures further physical security.

• It keeps accurate event logs of all data transferred and stored.

• Your data is kept on-line so that it is always available. The data vault is located at a Storage Guardian Service Provider's secure, off-site Data Centre.

Storage Guardian - a key component of business continuity plans. And peace of mind you can count on.

• Your data is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and it remains encrypted until it is restored on your LAN premises.

• Storage Guardian is offered as a service through Value Added Reseller program.

• Because Storage Guardian is remarketed and resold, there is no additional hardware to maintain, troubleshoot, or purchase, except for your TCP/IP communications link, and long distance charges, if applicable. And there's no software to purchase either.

DS-User - a graphical user interface that's easy-to-use

• At least one DS-User installation is required to manage the DS-Client, and it can be installed on the same computer as the DS-Client, or as a remote management feature, on any other Windows computer with a TCP/IP connection to the DS-Client.

• DS-User access to the DS-Client adopts the existing LAN security model.

Security - for data that's safe and secure

• Data is always encrypted, compressed, and decrypted at your LAN location. This means that your data is encrypted before leaving your premises and remains encrypted at all times - even when stored off-site - until it is restored back at your LAN location.

• The DS-Client integrates transparently with your existing security access levels, so your LAN security is unaffected. You specify backup and restore permissions as required.

• Other security features include the creation and verification of digital signatures, authentication, backup set synchronization, user name, and password.

Certification - for worry-free assurance of industry-standard LAN and server compatibility

Both the DS-Client application software and the DS-System vault of the Storage Guardian service have been tested, approved, and certified compatible by third party authorized testing centers. Certification by industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, Novell, Hummingbird, and IBM provides you with peace of mind that your existing LAN and server-related products will work smoothly with Storage Guardian.

The DS-Client^TM is certified compatible with:

• The Microsoft^® BackOffice^® integrated family of server software
• Novell^® NetWare and Novell NDS Network Directory Services under the Novell "Yes, Tested & Approved^TM" and the "Directory Enabled^TM" marks, respectively
• Hummingbird Communications NFS Maestro Gateway for UNIX under the "Flying with Hummingbird" mark

The DS-System^TM is certified as:

• IBM Netfinity ServerProven
• IBM ClusterProven