BRU Workstation, the de facto standard of reliable backup, delivers proven data verification and error detection and recovery to assure that your data is protected, accessible, and able to be restored exactly to your specifications.
BRU release 17.0 adds Quick File Access (QFA) and an improved GUI to BRU's already bursting feature set. Now, on Linux and FreeBSD platforms, restores of a single file can be performed in seconds no matter where the file exists on tape (dependent on the drive's QFA seek capabilities). QFA will be available for other platforms - watch this space for more announcements.
CRU (Crash Recovery Utility), provided under the QPL license, ships with BRU Workstation. Supporting Intel Linux and SCO platforms, CRU greatly simplifies the process of system recovery through the creation of boot and root diskettes. During a bare metal restore, or lesser event, simply boot from the diskettes and follow the prompts. The process eliminates the need to manually reload the operating system, re-define system parameters and reload device drivers; tasks where the potential for human error exists. CRU, used in conjunction with BRU backups, gets you up and running quickly, easily, and accurately. CRU supports Hewlett-Packard's OBDR (One-Button Disaster Recovery) tape drives.
BRU Workstation 17.0 is the product that replaces the
venerable BRU Backup & Restore Utility. BRU Workstation is licensed
for commercial use.
Protect Your Data With BRU
Have you ever-experienced aborted restores? The primary reason that data cannot be recovered is simple - the backup was not good.
Using BRU, upfront you'll know the status of the backup - not when the data is needed the most at a critical time later. BRU employs mechanisms that allow you to verify the accuracy of the backup, either immediately following the backup, or off-line to shorten the backup window. You can even verify your backups on a different system! Knowing your backup is accurate provides peace-of-mind that you can successfully recover your data.
After the backup has been verified and is archived, data bits can still become corrupt. BRU comes to the rescue again. Should bad data be detected during a restore, BRU attempts to re-read it. If unreadable after multiple passes (user defined), BRU reports the error location, advances the tape, and continues to read until good data is found. BRU then continues the recovery, returning the maximum amount of data without summarily aborting the recovery process like many other applications.
