BakBone Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

BakBone Virtual Tape Library

NetVault^®: Backup VTL presents your backup administrators with an abundance of new methods to augment and fine-tune current backup strategies. NetVault^®: Backup creates a virtual tape library stocked with drives, slots, and media on disks.

This simplifies backing up from disk. Even better, the administrator can also take advantage of the random-access nature of disk-based devices to improve the performance of existing backup and restore jobs.

The module governs all the same features and operates in exactly the same manner as a real tape library.

Enhanced Administrator Productivity

• NetVault: Backup Disk-to-Disk allows the administrator to freely design any number of customized virtual libraries — each with its own specific number of tape drives, tape slots, and tape sizes — to precisely fit the situation at hand.
• NetVault: Backup Disk-to-Disk concurrently sorts multiple data streams from multiple clients on the LAN into single, complete data streams on disk.
• In turn, these data streams can be easily and smoothly migrated or duplicated to real tape for offsite storage, ensuring a fast restore from either tape or disk.

Increased Automation

NetVault: Backup Disk-to-Disk can stand on its own as a backup solution, but when it is coupled with 

• a real tape library and
• NetVault: Backup with its value-added plugins

the potential of NetVault: Backup Disk to Disk is astounding!

Here's the way it works:

1. Backup sets can automatically be migrated or duplicated to real tape media, allowing optimal data transfer to the tape drive.
2. This eliminates the need to wait for packets from a LAN and the speed of processing Incremental Backup Consolidations can be increased dramatically.
3. This combination allows administrators to have the best of both worlds: keeping offsite backups elsewhere, and retaining fresh backups on disk for ultra-fast restores.

System Requirements

(See NetVault: Backup system requirements.)

General Information

• View VTL/ SVTLD Datasheet

White Papers

• View Next Generation Solutions for Optimizing Disk-to-Disk Backup and Recovery

Case Studies

• Biovitrum
  Biovitrum utilized the user-friendliness and functionality of NetVault: Backup to drive down its operating costs. The company also utilized the Virtual Disk Library™ feature of NetVault: Backup to speed up the backup process. View
• Danish Employers' Confederation
  The Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening used the NetVault: Backup Virtual Disk Library (VDL) to back up data directly to its head office over ADSL lines. Using network compression, data was shrunk before being sent, making the process faster and more efficient. View
• Stadhuis Harderwijk
  Stadhuis Harderwijk used the NetVault: Backup Virtual Disk Library feature to back up and restore data on its SAN. The city enjoyed the benefit of shorter backup times and increased stability. View
• Transtec AG
  NetVault: Backup allowed Transtec AG to streamline data backups over several different server systems using the Virtual Disk Library. View