Storix

Description

Storix System Backup Administrator (SBA) is a graphical interface for administration of various types of backups of AIX and Linux systems. System Backup Administrator is available in different configurations, providing options for standalone system, and centrally network administered network backups. System Backup Administrator 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.

SBA is not a tape library management product. Randomly backing up and cataloging thousands of files is a complicated and expensive feature that is needed only in very large (and usually multi-platform) installations. SBA includes most of the features that system administrators require, including some advanced features like tape labels and sequential tape autoloaders, without imposing the high cost of features they dont need.

The Need for System Backup Administrator
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 and various different 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.