Storix System Backup Administrator

Storix System Backup Administrator (SBAdmin) is a feature-rich AIX , Solaris and Linux based Backup and Disaster Recovery application, which provides an easy to use graphical user interface for centralized management of system and data backup. SBAdmin is available for standalone systems, or as a network administrator used to manage backups and restores across the network. However, SBAdmin was designed not only to backup data files to a network server, but to also provide the ability to reinstall a complete system from scratch while providing the flexibility needed to restore the backup onto a different hardware environment. SBAdmin is not a tape library management product. The process of randomly backing up and cataloging thousands of files is a complicated and expensive feature that is needed only in extremely large installations. SBAdmin incorporates the features that system administrators require, including some advanced features like tape labels and support for random tape libraries and sequential autoloaders, without imposing the high cost of features they don't need. Other multi-platform backup products may provide centralized backup management and scheduling, but only of regular files and directories. These other products are not capable of reinstalling a complete system from scratch, or rebuilding and restoring the system from the ground up, including LVM, SVM, ZFS and various filesystem types and attributes. Those that do usually perform a 'bare metal' restore, meaning you are locked into the previous configuration, even when trying to restore to different disk configurations.