Models

Overview
Seagate Software works closely with Novell to optimize Seagate Backup Exec for enterprise-wide NetWare data protection, making it the safest, most reliable solution available. Engineered to deliver safe, reliable, full-featured network backup, Seagate Backup Exec will keep pace with your network’s changing needs, while maximizing your investment. Through joint engineering efforts with Compaq, Seagate Backup Exec adds enterprise class support, allowing users to share secondary storage devices among many servers, lowering a company’s total cost of ownership (TCO) and improving network performance. With Novell’s Storage Management Services (SMS) support, Seagate Backup Exec protects NetWare 3 and 4 servers, and will protect future generations of NetWare. Also, in the event of a hardware failure, Seagate Backup Exec’s fault-tolerant processing automatically re-routes jobs to an alternate tape drive or backup server.

Seagate Backup Exec for NetWare simplifies and automates enterprise-wide backup, with extensive multi-platform support. Seagate Backup Exec fully protects NetWare, Windows NT and LAN servers, as well as DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, OS/2 and UNIX workstations. Seagate Backup Exec offers unmatched reliability for enterprise-wide data protection.

System Requirements

NetWare

• Novell NetWare 4.11
• 6-MB RAM over server requirements
• 19-MB disk space

Windows

• Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows NT
• Windows for Workgroups v3.11 and Windows 95
• 700-KB RAM, 3-MB disk space (client)
• 35-KB RAM¹, 0.20-MB disk space (agent)

OS/2

• OS/2 v2.0, v2.1, WARP v3.0 and WARP Connect,
  LAN Server 2 and 4
• 2.5- MB RAM, 4.0-MB disk space (client)
• 0.25-MB disk space (agent)

DOS

• MS-DOS 5.0 and later
• Novell DOS v7, PC DOS v6.3 and v7.0
• 35-KB RAM¹, 0.20-MB disk space (agent)

Macintosh: (Including PowerPC)

• System 7.x and Mac OS 8 using the ADSP (Apple Talk) interface

UNIX

• HP/UX 9.05, 10.01
• IBM AIX 3.2.5, 4.1
• Interactive 3.2
• SCO UNIX r3.2 v4.x
• SCO Open Server r5 - v5.0.0
• SUN OS 4.1x
• Solaris x86 2.4, 2.5
• UnixWare 1.x, 2.01
• 0.15-MB disk space (agent)

Media Format

• CD-ROM

Supported Tape Formats

• Computer Associates ARCserve for NetWare DOS edition (Read)
• Computer Associates ARCserve for NetWare Windows Edition (Read)
• SIDF ECMA-208 (Read)
• Microsoft Tape Format (Read/Write)

Seagate Backup Exec Options - Seagate Backup Exec combines built-in capabilities with optional support-enabling you to meet the challenges of network growth, data protection and storage management with the following products:

Seagate Backup Exec Shared Storage Option - Provides robust, centralized backup within a distributed environment. Designed to function as an integrated component of the Compaq StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS), the Shared Storage Option allows multiple distributed backup servers to share common, centralized storage devices for greater cost efficiency and fault tolerance. At the same time, each backup server can initiate its own backups and restorations regardless of the state of the other backup servers.

Seagate Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery™ Option - Provides fast, reliable and easy-to-use recovery for your server after hardware or system failure. Seagate Software recognizes time is critical when your server is down and our Backup Exec Intelligent Disaster Recovery Option can help you rebuild your server. With a minimum of user input, whether it’s a single failed disc drive or an entire server.

Seagate Backup Exec Advanced AutoLoader Option for NetWare-  Is a powerful add-on feature that significantly enhances your data protection capabilities, for truly unattended backup operations. The Advanced AutoLoader Module enables you to establish groups of tapes within the device magazine, thus enabling you to direct data to user-defined groups. You can identify groups of tapes with user-defined names and segment data backups for enterprise-wide and user-directed backups.

Open File Manager™ Option - Provides uninterrupted data protection for network environments that must remain accessible 24 hours-a-day/7-days-a-week. Using an innovative approach to open file backup, Open File Manager provides protection for active e-mail, database and other data files even while information is being entered or changed by users - for guaranteed data security, integrity and reliability. Designed to be fully NetWare compatible - Open File Manager runs at the operating system level.

Seagate Back Exec IBM ADSM Option - Allows network administrators to access the full line of IBM mid-range/mainframe hardware and Advanced Data Storage Management software through Seagate Backup Exec’s NetWare and Window NT solutions. Seagate Backup Exec uses the ADSM system as a large data storage device and allows backups to be automatically routed to the ADSM system just as if it were a large tape library or autoloader. Multiple servers and workstations can all be protected using the ADSM option and any number of Backup Exec systems can simultaneously connect to one ADSM system. It requires support for ADSF v2.0 or later and ADSM v2.0 or later.

Servers
Compaq ProLiant 7000 Xeon™
Compaq ProLiant 6500 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 6000 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 5500R Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 5500 Xeon
Compaq ProLiant 3000R 6/450
Compaq ProLiant 3000 6/450
Compaq ProLiant 1850R
Compaq ProLiant 1600R (100 MHz)
Compaq ProLiant 1600 (100 MHz)
Compaq ProLiant 800 6/350E, 6/400, 6/450 MHz
Compaq ProLiant 400