The BEX Unified Platform is based on a single sophisticated catalog that records, monitors and controls all data protection tasks and policies – across platforms, applications and hardware. The catalog resides on the BEX master server and, using architectural innovation, is designed to be manageable in terms of both space and usage.
In addition, BEX provides an intuitive interface – the BEX Management Console – through which the user interacts with the backup enterprise to monitor data protection jobs, manage resources, administer policies, and schedule tasks.
BEX is designed to meet the needs of rapidly changing, complex networks. Its flexible features include:
- Administrators of complex networks can back up and restore Windows versions 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008, UNIX, Linux, NetWare, Novell OES and OES2, and Mac OS X for Mac/iMac, plus NDMP-compliant filers with a single data protection product.
- Storage devices can be distributed anywhere in your enterprise: LAN, SAN or WAN.
- The BEX catalog can be located on Windows or Linux.
- Administrators can back up and restore at all levels: file, directory, application, disk, raw partition, node, node group and enterprise.
- Administrative functions such as defining backups, scheduling jobs, running management reports, and monitoring jobs are centralized.
- The BEX scheduler enables creation of complex backup schedules and provides a shortcut for scheduling rudimentary Base/Incremental or Base/Differential schemes. Jobs can be scheduled to run many times in the same day. Tape retention is settable as part of backup job scheduling.
- Administrator configuration utilities allow you to easily assign role-based privileges and resources to administrators and sub-administrators.
- BEX single catalog enables central control with distributed recovery. Scheduled catalog maintenance optimizes catalog searches and minimizes disk space usage. Advanced techniques dramatically speed operations and reduce catalog space requirements. The catalog remains available for other catalog activities during most BEX operations including any catalog backup job or catalog condense job. Outdated backups are deleted as part of the normal catalog condense process.
- Tuning parameters, environmental variables and other BEX properties are easily managed, displayed and modified the BEX management console.
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