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UltraBac 5.5 for Win NT

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If you are a network administrator, frequently pestered with

crashed machine calls, with loss of valuable data, this product could help you.

UltraBac is a back-up software capable of backing up data on to a variety of

backup media. This can then be restored, to the affected machines, in the event

of an operating system or application crash. It runs on Win NT and can backup

data from other NT servers, Win 9x machines, Novell NetWare servers, MS Exchange

servers, and SQL servers running on your network.

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UltraBac 5.5

Back-up SW. 



Price: $149 for Corporate User Workstation Edition and $1295 for Network Enterprise Edition.


Features: Can take backup on a variety of media and also a variety of servers or workstations; scheduled unattended backups.


Pros: Easy to administer and manage.


Cons: File and Print sharing has to be enabled on machines for backup.


Source: No active reseller in India. 


For buying send an 


e-mail to sales@ultrabac.com.  





UltraBac uses custom-defined sets to relate to various PCs,

for which you need to take backups. The set description includes the path of the

files and folders to backup, the path where the backup is stored and a host of

other information including the kind of files to backup. The last setting lets

you backup, for instance only the files that have been modified. The information

is stored in reference files, which are text files with the extension .UB.

Backup can be taken on a tape drive, a local hard disk or a

network drive. You can also take the backup as an image on the local drive and

later burn it on to a CD for archiving. However, ‘File and Printer sharing’

needs to be turned on and the required contents (files or folders) need to be

shared on the client machine for the backup to take place. This isn’t always

feasible as the data becomes accessible to others as well. If you

password-protect the folders, then doing scheduled backups with the software is

possible.

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UltraBac can be scheduled to take unattended backups as per

defined set of parameters. These include time intervals for the backups to be

updated, apart from the regular information about clients and backup

destination. So you can set the application to take backup of your critical

servers, say every six hours. Or you can set the software to backup only a set

of critical files every fifteen minutes. This ensures minimal loss of data,

especially useful when dealing with database servers.

Restoring data is quite an easy task. You just need the set

file and the location of the stored backup. Once entered, you can also select

specific files or folders that you want restored from the index of the backed up

data. However, if you change the machine name after a crash, the backup doesn’t

work.

The software also lets you create rescue disks for Win NT. So

in the event of a Win NT server crash, you can boot off the rescue disks and

recover the system. Once up, data can be restored from the backup stored on your

backup device. It also has an UltraCopy option, which lets you copy a backup to

another device. So you can initially take backups on local drives and later move

them to tape drives for archival.

Till recently, UltraBac had a reseller in Kochi. But as of

this writing, they have discontinued the dealership. You can get more details on

the price and purchase procedures at www.ultrabac.com.

Ashish Sharma with Sanjay Majumder

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