LinuxFocus: Arkeia, a commercial and professional network backup solution

“Arkeia was first selected because of its support of many OSes.
Backup servers can be: AIX 4.1, DEC Alpha Unix 4.0, HP-UX 10, IRIX
6.2 and up, Linux 2.* (x86), Solaris 2.5 and up and NT 4.0 Server
Intel. Backup clients can be: the same as the servers plus a lot
more, such as SCO v5 (Intel), BSD 3.0, 4.0, Novell 4.11, FreeBSD
2.2.6, Windows 95, 98, NT 4.0 Server (Alpha) and NT 4.0 Workstation
(Intel). This list is not exhaustive and new OSes are added all the
time.”

“…Arkeia uses a GUI on the server side. You need to log into
Arkeia through a login window from where you have access to every
task specific window backup management. These windows are opened
from a tool-bar menu, contextual menu or from icons. All this can
be configured according to your taste (predefined backgrounds or
color of your choice). There is not much more to say as everything
is obvious and user-friendly. On Unix the GUI (graphical user
interface) will work with most window managers.”

“Arkeia uses a parallel backup technology through a TCP/IP
network. A backup server manages the tape drives and gets the data
from the clients using multi-flow. It operates according to
client/server standards using shared memory and message
queues. IPC (Inter Process Communication) has to be perfectly
configured on your backup server. The user manual will teach you
how to tune your backup server. The configuration is quite logical:
you need to install client software together with server software
on the backup server and client software on the clients. So far, so
good! On the server side you’ll have to define everything
concerning tape drives, drivepacks, tape pools, tapes and
savepacks.”

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