Arkeia Network Backup
Upgrade and Migration

Arkeia Software is committed to data protection using innovative cutting edge technology.

As one of our 5,000 plus enterprise customers, there are many reasons to upgrade your existing installation to Arkeia Network Backup v7. We have worked to make this upgrade path extremely easy. If you are upgrading your backup server from a previous version, please follow the migration procedure for your environment.

NOTE: Upgrading to the latest Arkeia Software release requires a new license key.

If you have a valid maintenance contract or subscription to the update program please fill out the registration form and check the "I have a valid maintenance contract” box. Our team will send your new license key as quickly as possible.

If you do not have a valid maintenance contract or subscription to the update program, you are not automatically entitled to new major Arkeia Network Backup releases. To receive a personal upgrade offer with access to the latest version of Arkeia Network Backup, please fill in the registration form and check the "Interested in Maintenance contract" box.

v7 Feature List:

• Completely redesigned Web-based graphical user interface
• Enhanced Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
• Extended platform support
• Disaster Recovery for Windows
• Distributed architecture that allows centralized management of multiple instances of ANB software
• Full and seamless integration with EdgeFort appliances

v6 Feature List:

• Centralized Management of multiple media servers
• New 3 tier architecture
• LAN-Free backup support
• Advanced SAN support with scsi-3 and fiber channel protocol
• Dynamic library sharing on a SAN
• Dynamic drive sharing on a SAN
• Remote drive management
• Integrated virtual tape library (VTL)
• Improved disaster recovery module based on a 2.6 linux kernel
• Introduction of a Windows Media Server (backup to disk, tape using windows)
• Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape backup
• Lotus 7 hot backup module
• glibc 2.4 library support (SuSE 10, RHES 4.0, etc...)

v5.3 and below Feature List:

• Accelerated backup speeds, especially in conditions involving a high number of imbricate directories and/or incremental backups.
• Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) support for MS-Windows 2003 servers snapshot backup
• Support of Kernel 2.6 Linux distributions
• Increased 64-bit Linux support with packages for both Intel Itanium-2 and AMD Opteron
• Optional NDMP network-attached storage (NAS) devices support
• A new Blowfish algorithm supporting up to 448-bit encryption
• Expanded platform support including Debian packages compatible with the apt-get system
• Feature enhancements to tape verification, index rebuild
• Extended command line interface
• Added flexibility to graphical user interface
• Expanded backup reporting functions to provide customized reports and messages, deliverable to designated email addresses.
• Support for DLTSage technology that incorporates a suite of preventive and predictive diagnosis for SDLT 320/600 tape devices.
• Backup of Linux ACLs.
• Convenient tape duplication GUI interface that clones tapes which can then be stored off site.
• A brand new GUI, including a powerful scheduling interface that allows a defined backup end date and exception management.
• Bare metal Disaster Recovery options for a Linux backup or data server
• Arkeia Windows clients can perform hot backup of registries, active directories, certificates and event logs.
• License management: adding, renaming, deleting Arkeia client directly from the GUI
• Backup server catalog optimization with increased efficiency for the server saved object catalog, including on-the-fly update and the ability to purge old files.

Please note that Arkeia Software no longer supports versions 4.x - 5.2. Arkeia 5.3 EOL will expire on January 1, 2008.

Upgrade today!