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NetVault is a set of data protection solutions developed and supported by Quest Software

Quest Software

Quest Software is a computer software manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Founded in 1987, Quest develops, manufactures and supports software used by Information Technology professionals in a variety of industries...

. Its flagship product, NetVault Backup is a cross-platform, enterprise-level backup

Backup

In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....

and recovery software solution. It can be used to protect data and software applications in physical and virtual environments from one central management interface. An enterprise solution, it supports many server, application platforms and protocols such as UNIX

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Mac OS

Mac OS

Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface...

, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, VMware

VMware

VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

, Microsoft Hyper-V, Oracle

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

, Sybase

Sybase

Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....

, Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

, NDMP

NDMP

NDMP, or Network Data Management Protocol, is a protocol invented by the NetApp and Legato companies, meant to transport data between NAS devices and backup devices...

, Oracle ACSLS, IBM DAS/ACI, Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...

, DB2

IBM DB2

The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...

, Informix

Informix

IBM Informix is a family of relational database management system developed by IBM. It is positioned as IBM's flagship data server for online transaction processing as well as integrated solutions...

, MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

, Lotus Domino, and Teradata

Teradata

Teradata Corporation is a vendor specializing in data warehousing and analytic applications. Its products are commonly used by companies to manage data warehouses for analytics and business intelligence purposes. Teradata was formerly a division of NCR Corporation, with the spinoff from NCR on...

.

Quest offers additional components that complement NetVault Backup. These offer near-instant recovery of applications, continuous data protection

Continuous data protection

Continuous data protection , also called continuous backup or real-time backup, refers to backup of computer data by automatically saving a copy of every change made to that data, essentially capturing every version of the data that the user saves...

(CDP), bare metal recovery (BMR), host-based replication, data deduplication

Data deduplication

In computing, data deduplication is a specialized data compression technique for eliminating coarse-grained redundant data. The technique is used to improve storage utilization and can also be applied to network data transfers to reduce the number of bytes that must be sent across a link...

, and protection for NAS filers (NDMP

NDMP

NDMP, or Network Data Management Protocol, is a protocol invented by the NetApp and Legato companies, meant to transport data between NAS devices and backup devices...

).

Quest Software acquired the full line of NetVault data protection products through its purchase of BakBone Software in 2011. It was the twenty-second acquisition for Quest since 1998.

Product details

NetVault Backup is based on a client-server architecture. A central NetVault Backup Server provides the job management, media management, device management, client management, reporting, notifications and logging functions. The NetVault Backup Server maintains a history of backups in the NetVault Backup database, enabling users to identify the object(s) they want to restore. NetVault Clients are “agents” that work with the NetVault Backup Server to back up and recovery the respective servers, applications and data. The client software is installed on each machine to be protected. The NetVault Console enables centralized administration of a NetVault Backup Server from any workstation within the network.

NetVault supports tape drives, tape libraries and other backup devices attached to the central server itself or to a protected machine located anywhere on the network, enabling LAN-free backups. Additionally, devices can be controlled through NDMP if they are attached to a supported filer.

NetVault Backup Server 8.5.3 (the master backup server) can be deployed on Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

, Linux

Linux

, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Solaris

Solaris

- Fiction :* Solaris , a 1961 science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem** Solaris , directed by B. Nirenburg** Solaris , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky** Solaris , directed by Steven Soderbergh...

, IBM AIX, and HP-UX

HP-UX

HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...

Platform and application support

NetVault Backup can protect Windows Server

Windows Server

Windows Server is a brand name for a group of server operating systems released by Microsoft Corporation. All are part of Microsoft Servers.- Members :This brand includes the following software:* Windows 2000 Server* Windows Server 2003...

, Linux

Linux

, Mac OS

Mac OS

, Solaris, FreeBSD

FreeBSD

FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...

, AIX, HP-UX

HP-UX

HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...

, Hyper-V

Hyper-V

Microsoft Hyper-V, codenamed Viridian and formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, is a hypervisor-based virtualization system for x86-64 systems. A beta version of Hyper-V was shipped with certain x86-64 editions of Windows Server 2008, and the finalized version was released on June 26,...

, VMware

VMware

and NetWare (using a thin client). It also can back up a variety of applications and NAS devices (NDMP) using so-called Plug-ins. The list includes Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

, Oracle

Oracle database

The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....

, Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server

, Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...

, DB2

IBM DB2

, Sybase

Sybase

, and others.

Components

There are five options within the Quest NetVault suite, enabling backup and recovery to disk or tape, instant recovery, continuous data protection

Continuous data protection

(CDP), bare metal recovery (BMR), host-based replication, and data deduplication

Data deduplication

NetVault Backup is a cross-platform backup and recovery software solution. It can be used to back up and recover data and applications in physical and virtual environments from one central management interface. eWEEK wrote that NetVault's broad platform support is its “primary strength.” For example, NetVault has been ported to Mac OS. “This makes it a good choice for IT managers who want to back up their data to Apple servers.”
NetVault SmartDisk offers disk-based backup, data compression, and data deduplication to reduce the backend storage footprint. It uses byte-level, variable block-based software deduplication and is hardware-agnostic, so no specialized drives or appliances are needed.
NetVault FastRecover provides near-instant recovery for Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server and Windows File servers using continuous data protection (CDP) technology. It allows users to recovery business-critical applications and data in 30 seconds.
NetVault Bare Metal Recovery enabling users to restore a computer from its "bare metal" state—including the necessary operating system, network settings, system settings, applications, disk partitions and data.
NetVault Replicator delivers host-based, real-time replication for Windows, Linux and Solaris file-system data. On-demand replication is also available for Mac OS X file-system data. NetVault Replication supports bi-directional one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many deployments.

NetApp options

Quest supports NetApp solutions with the following NetVault technologies:

SnapMirror to Tape – Working in conjunction with the NetApp’s SnapMirror technology, NetVault SnapMirror to Tape enables full volumes on filers to be mirrored and backed up to tape to provide the ability to store data offsite for disaster recovery.
SnapVault Manager – SnapVault Manager provides a graphical interface that is integrated with NetVault Backup to provide a single point of enterprise-wide control of NetApp’s SnapVault solution. This allows organizations to back up changed data from multiple storage platforms to a common Snapshot target on NetApp appliances.
Snapshot Manager – The NetVault NDMP Snapshot Manager allows organizations to generate, automatically schedule and recover snapshots through NetVault’s GUI.

Disk targets

Originally NetVault Backup was intended to back up to physical tapes in tape drives. However, the product was soon extended to support backup to a Virtual Tape Library or VTL. This technology is allows writing backup data to disk for permanent storage or later duplication to tape.

NetVault Backup supports LAN-free backups, which can write to a physical tape drive or VTL that is shared between multiple machines using Fibre Channel or iSCSI.

Quest now offers NetVault SmartDisk to complement NetVault Backup. NetVault SmartDisk performs post-processing data deduplication

Data deduplication

. It represents a contiguous storage pool on disk without being subdivided into virtual tapes or slots for easier management and allows for byte-level, variable block-based software deduplication.

History

1989: The NetVault product was originally a product developed by AT&T for internal use.
1992: AT&T contracted a UK company Willow Ltd to provide tape library support. At that time NetVault Backup was at version 2.0. Willow Ltd added Tape Library management, a Graphical User Interface and heterogeneous platform support.
1996: AT&T spun off the NetVault product into a separate private company, CommVault, through a management buyout. At the time, CommVault’s Galaxy product was primarily an optical archiving product and used some of NetVault tape library support within it. CommVault and Willow Ltd could not agree the term for the buyout of NetVault. They eventually agreed a deal whereby CommVault would no longer be committed to the development contract with Willow Ltd. CommVault would have the right to license the NetVault media/device manager and Willow Ltd would have full ownership of the NetVault source code.
1997: The re-architecture of the product that was to be NetVault 6 was started by Fabrice Helliker and his team. It had some unique features, including common Graphical User Interface between Windows, UNIX and Linux; support for shared tape libraries on SANs; built-in VTL support; and a plug-in architecture for extending protection to applications and devices
1998: The UK company was renamed to NetVault Ltd.
1999: The development of NetVault 6 core product was complete and was released at the end of the year.
2000: BakBone Software bought NetVault Ltd. through a reverse merger. BakBone Software introduced NetVault 6.03, which was one of the first backup and recovery solutions to support Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) on NetApp filers.
2003: BakBone Software released NetVault 7, which added user-level access and a reporting infrastructure.
2006: The core team that architected NetVault 6 left BakBone to form Cofio Software
Cofio Software
Cofio Software, headquartered in San Diego, California, is a privately held company founded in 2006 by Tony Cerqueira, Patrick Barcus and Fabrice Helliker. The founders were also founders of BakBone Software and much of Cofio's engineering team were the core developers at BakBone and were the team...

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2009: BakBone Software acquired the continuous data protection (CDP) technology from Asempra Technologies. It was rebranded NetVault FastRecover.
2011: Quest Software
Quest Software
Quest Software is a computer software manufacturer headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Founded in 1987, Quest develops, manufactures and supports software used by Information Technology professionals in a variety of industries...

completed the acquisition of BakBone Software and made the NetVault product line the core component of their data protection strategy.

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