Up until now, Upstream Reservoir required that customers use a Microsoft Windows box as the host storage backup server. Innovation Data has long since been able to backup and restore data on a multitude of platforms, using agents on server machines. Specifically, backup agents can run on Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Server 2003 variants, Novell’s NetWare, IBM’s OS/2 and AIX, Sun’s Solaris, and Hewlett-Packard’s HP-UX and Tru64 Unixes.
The company also has plug-ins to archive and restore files for Oracle’s eponymous databases as well as IBM’s DB2 UDB and Microsoft’s SQL Server, and has created plug-ins for the three most popular enterprise groupware platforms, IBM’s Notes/Domino, Microsoft’s Exchange Server, and Novell’s GroupWise. Upstream Reservoir supports a wide variety of tape technologies – including StorageTek’s 9840, IBM’s Magstar, and the ubiquitous DLT, LTO, and AIT tape drives. The software also offers straight backup to tape as well as disk-to-disk (D2D) and staged from disk to tape (D2D2T) archiving.
