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Stratesave Agents and Options

Overview

Stratesave add-on Agents and Options extend the capability of Stratesave Server and enable users to find out the individual backup solution. Available add-on agents and options include Network Agent, SQL Server Agent, Exchange Server Agent, Disaster Recovery option, Open File option and Autoloader Agent. The products Stratesave Server Plus and Stratesave Server & Network provide cost-effective bundle server solutions with Stratesave Add-ons. Please refer Stratesave Product Comparison for more info.

Network Agent

Stratesave Network Agent makes your PC with Stratesave a powerful network backup server of unlimited number of Windows 2008,Vista,2003,XP,2000,NT 4.0 and Windows ME/98/95 PCs. The Backup Server will access the clients through their file shares (e.g. C$), and therefore no need to install backup Software on the clients. The networked PCs will be fully backed up and restored, including registry, Windows specialities and restoration of locked files. Network Agent applies functionality in other Agents for Networked computers. For example with Stratesave Agent for SQL Server, it allows remote Backup and Restore of SQL Server.

SQL Server Agent

Complete online SQL Server data protection.

Stratesave Agent for Microsoft® SQL Server enables Stratesave to backup/restore running SQL Server 2005/2000/7.0 databases. Backups and restores are performed through native SQL Server APIs (VDI) to assure reliable and consistent SQL Server protection.
SQL Server backups are integrated in backup plan and purely organized. Remote SQL Server backups are supported with Network Agent.
Stratesave SQL Server Agent supports full, differential and purely incremental backups. Incremental backups are for very frequent backups, e.g. every 10 minutes, to be able recover the databases to almost actual state in case of unexpected disk crash. Incremental backups are stored to fixed disk. During restore, Stratesave automatically restores the full backup, differential and all incremental backups in correct order, to recover the database to most recent state. Databases can be restored to file optionally, for manual processing if desired.
Support backup of multiple and named SQL Server 2005/2000 database instances. VSS full backups through SqlServerWriter and MSDEWriter can be combined with standard SQL Server differential and incremental backups.

Exchange Server Agent

Stratesave Exchange Server Agent enables Stratesave to backup Exchange Server 2007/2003/2000 databases. The backups are performed through the Exchange server backup programming interface, to assure accuracy of backed up data. Alternatively, Exchange Server 2007/2003 can also be backed up through VSS interface, with OpenFile option.
Backups can be full, differential or incremental. Incremental backups are for very frequent backups, e.g. every 10 minutes, to be able recover the databases to almost actual state in case of unexpected disk crash. Incremental backups are stored to fixed disk. Exchange Server supports incremental or differential backups, not both in same backup plan. During restore, Stratesave automatically restores the full backup, and all differential or incremental backups in correct order, to recover the database to most recent state.
Databases can be restored to file optionally, for manual processing if desired.
Remote Exchange Server backups are supported with Network Agent.

Disaster Recovery

If your system crashes, you want your data back right away. That is why you want to have Disaster Recovery to keep downtime to a minimum, and simplify the recovery process. Stratesave supports full Restore of your PC for all Windows versions. The difference with Disaster Recovery it is not necessary to reinstall Windows.
Stratesave Disaster Recovery Agent allows Windows 2008, Vista, Windows 2003 and Windows XP Professional to recover PC without reinstalling Windows and Stratesave. It bases on Automated System Recovery (ASR), built in Windows 2008, Vista, 2003 and XP Professional, and uses a ASR Disaster Recovery Floppy disk on Windows 2003 and XP. Windows PE 2.0 DVD or VistaPE is required for Windows 2008/Vista.
For Disaster Recovery, boot the PC from Windows CD, press F2 and provide the ASR Floppy disk. Boot the System in ASR mode or from Windows PE, format drive if necessary. The System can then be fully restored from there, including System State.

Bases on Automated System Recovery (ASR) built in Windows.
Eliminate the need to first reload the entire operating system after a system crash.
Supported for Windows 2008, Vista, XP Professional and Windows 2003.
With Stratesave Network Agent, allows Remote Disaster Recovery over Network, with Stratesave running on the Backup Server. In this case, it is not necessary to create the ASR Floppy disk in advance, but it can be created on the Backup Server from the stored Backup when needed. This feature needs VistaPE for Windows 2008/Vista.

OpenFile Option

Stratesave Open File Option uses Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) built in Windows 2008, Vista, 2003 and XP. At start of backup, a Snapshot is taken of all disks to be backed up. The Snapshot is then backed up. This has the advantage, that the state of all backed up files is taken at the same time. Stratesave also allows selection of VSS-supportive applications (writers), and backs up the System State "VSS-aware", following the VSS guidelines.

Support of remote OpenFile Backup with Network Agent.
Snapshot is created in cooperation with selectable VSS-aware applications (writers), e.g. Exchange Server 2007/2003, SQL Server 2005/2000, SharePoint 2007, Oracle, for most precise Snapshot Backup. Stratesave also backs up Writer Meta-Data.

Autoloader Agent

Stratesave Autoloader Agent enables Stratesave to backup with tape autoloaders/media changers. When Stratesave needs a tape during backup or restore, instead of showing a dialog asking to put the tape into drive manually, it passes the request to the autoloader, which then moves the tape from defined storage slot to the tape drive. When Stratesave no longer needs the tape, it ranges it back to its slot.
Stratesave Autoloader Agent supports the Windows Removable Storage Manager (RSM). Tape mount requests are passed to the RSM through the RSM API. For systems where RSM is not running, Stratesave provides an alternate method, accessing SCSI autoloaders directly.