Data backup solutions provider STORServer has announced availability of version 4.5 of its Archive Backup Client for OpenVMS.
The Archive Backup Client (ABC) for OpenVMS enables users to include their OpenVMS servers in their heterogeneous IBM Tivoli Storage Manager backup solution.
The latest version includes major enhancements to file backup speed and performance when backing up thousands of files in a single directory. †In addition, ABC v4.5 supports the POSIX-style file systems introduced in OpenVMS v8.3 and also provides other minor enhancements and bug fixes. The performance update is also available in ABC v4.1.1.2, OpenVMS v6.2 through v7.1 on the Alpha platform, and OpenVMS v5.5-2 and newer on the VAX platform.
“These enhancements bypass a long-standing and well-known issue within the OpenVMS file system with these kinds of large directories,” says Steve Jensen, STORServer’s vice president of software engineering. “We’ve verified backup performance improvements of nearly 30 times the throughput of the previous implementation.”
ABC v.4.5 is designed to enable SMB users to backup, archive, restore, query, and manage OpenVMS files stored on TSM servers as a logical extension to the online OpenVMS ODS-2 or ODS-5 file systems. Other features include:
- Protection of OpenVMS files stored on TSM servers.
- Automation and scheduling.
- Ad hoc backup and archive requests.
- Full user authentication.
- Flexible DCL-like interface.
- AliasWise handling of complex alias file structures.
- Policy-based management and support.
- Advance Encryption Standard 256-bit encryption.
ABC v4.5 may be installed as a new product or as an upgrade from any previous version.
