Comprehensive Heterogeneous Backup
The True incremental Backup System is enterprise network backup system software for both commercial and open source operating and network file systems. All platforms can be backed up in a True incremental forever fashion with multi-level synthetic backup consolidation to enable fast restore times. A single TiBS backup server can simultaneously support clients running AFS, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, NFS, Mac OS, Windows and More...
Three Versions of TiBS Available
TiBS has three versions available. These are TiBS Basic, TiBS Lite, and TiBS Full Version. All three versions can be used as a backup to disk, backup to tape, or a combined multi-media storage solution.
Backup Servers on Non-proprietary Hardware?
TiBS Backup Servers and Disk Based Backup Storage Sub-Systems can be purchased from your educational hardware vendor. Teradactyl will provide assistance in developing the specifications for your hardware supplier, integrator, or to issue an RFQ for competitive bidding. Educational institutions do not need to buy the expensive and hard to expand disk systems for reliable backup storage. We can show you how to create your own reliable and cost effective solutions! Build your own fault tolerant backup disk storage...
Backup Servers on Open Source Platforms?
TiBS supports a vast array of open source operating systems for Client backup. Teradactyl also wanted to provide our customers with a choice of backup server platforms as well. In addition to commercial operating systems, TiBS Backup Servers can run on a variety of Linux distros and now on NetBSD. Build your own fault tolerant backup servers...
Research & Educational Sales of the True incremental Backup System
The complexity in the number and types of operating and network file systems is a significant challenge for many institutions but seems even more pronounced for education. The common mix of commercial and open source platforms, such as OpenAFS or NetBSD, are often unsupported by the world's leading enterprise network backup software vendors. Furthermore, research data is highly unique and frequently does not fit backup models based upon data deduplication or other forms of intelligent compression. Organization with highly unique data benefit more from multi-level synthetic backup consolidation and the elimination of periodic network full backups. They need a backup software company, such as Teradactyl, that has extensive operating and network file system support that can scale to match the large volumes of data that are being generated.
Teradactyl eliminates per seat charges, opting instead, to license flat rate per operating & network file system and base the primary cost on the amount of processing power needed to complete network backup operations within the desired backup window. Backup storage sub-systems are options licensed per backup server regardless of capacity to make license administration quick and easy.
Teradactyl strongly supports educational efforts. Management personally feels that those organizations, which contribute to the success of future generations, deserve a significant discount on our software and services. We will help you put together a solution for your organization that is right for you and will help you save money over comparable solutions.
True incremental Backup System Restore Operations are Fast and Powerful
Backup system restores are almost universally characterized as a slow and arduous process. Our competition frequently point to disk based storage as a de facto solution to this problem. However, their multi pass overlays of full and sequential incremental data or hash based systems that have to reassemble countless chunks of data are not proving to be fast enough for large amounts of data or true disaster recovery with large numbers of systems. The True incremental Backup system restore operations are a single pass methodology and can run in parallel limited primarily by bandwidth, client ingestion speeds, and backup system hardware. Our advanced synthetic backup consolidation technology aggregates your backup data to provide fast streaming restores from both disk and tape storage subsystems. If your backup system strategy is to take into account the possibility of loosing machine rooms or buildings, then the advantages of TiBS in restore operations can not be ignored. More...
Need more Money for Education? Try Department, Site, and System Licensing!
TiBS has not per seat charges, storage modules are licensed per backup server, processing power has volume discounts, we support virtually every commonly deployed operating and network file system, and our support costs are a fixed percentage of software purchase price. Need More Savings? Teradactyl offers educators another benefit not found with other software companies, departments can use TiBS to backup other departments in the same institution with no per seat charges!
School systems, colleges, and universities can designate a department to provide backup services to other departments or colleges within the same institution. They can even permit the department to charge fees under this model to recover software, hardware, media, support, and staff expenses. Teradactyl's pricing model easily permits educational organizations to centralize backup resources to conserve budgets. Teradactyl also has Department Enterprise Licenses, Organizational Site Licenses, and Organizational System Licenses. With educational resources under constant pressure, today's leading universities are turning to Teradactyl for better data protection and a more sensible pricing model. Learn more about TiBS pricing options...
Mass Storage Systems - Backups via NFS or NDMP
Teradactyl provides solutions for backing up filers in NAS and SAN environments. Our perpetual True incremental Backup technology can eliminate periodic network, SAN, or direct attached full backup dumps. With our patented solutions, only True incremental data needs to be transferred to the backup system on a perpetual basis. Backups via NFS were once considered inefficient but are now practical and have some advantages over NDMP approaches. We checksum data transfers, writes, and restores. We can audit tape media for data integrity eliminating the dump and pray approach. With multi-level synthetic backup consolidation, we can provide more storage strategies to reduce media consumption and share expensive tape drives with other functions. Your mass storage systems can be available to serve your organization and clients. More...
OpenAFS is Free, Secure, and Ideal for Education but What about Backups?
AFS has several benefits over traditional networked file systems, particularly in the areas of security and scale. All versions of the True incremental Backup System have support for OpenAFS environments. Beginning in 2009, a single TiBS backup server can now process backup operations for multiple cell environments.
As with our other supported platforms, OpenAFS changes can be backed up in True incremental forever mode. TiBS is an intrinsic backup solution for AFS. Data can be stored in multiple backup levels. The product's TeraMerge technology generates new lower level synthetic backups from data previously ingested into the backup system. This removes periodic full and lower backups from AFS file servers and networks, providing a very efficient, centralized, Disk to Disk and/or Disk to Disk to Tape solution. Nightly backups from file servers are performed by backing up only the volumes that have changed, and only the file data that has changed within each volume since it was last backed up. This provides for extremely short network backup windows. Synthetic backup consolidation can be performed on dedicated backup servers at any time without impacting cell performance.
Teradactyl is the Global Leader for OpenAFS backup and disaster recovery. We transform cell backups from days to minutes! TiBS OpenAFS Backup page...