Technical Details for Veritas Backup Exec RAIDirector 1.0

Veritas Backup Exec RAIDirector 1.0 ... networks. As the first backup solution designed for Windows NT, Backup Exec incorporates database protection and storage management options for today's highly specialized networking environment. These agents are specifically designed for complex messaging and transactional intensive databases, along with options for storage system management and server recovery that can be installed from any centralized backup server.

RAIDirector is a tape RAID option, supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, and 3, that provides increased performance and fault-tolerance of existing tape hardware while dramatically shrinking the backup window - and for a fraction of the cost of hardware-based solutions. Logically linking multiple independent SCSI tape devices provides flexibility for mirroring (ideal for off-site storage), striping and striping with parity. Also, exclusive RAID stacking allows for mirrored, striped sets.