Altiris is all about systems management, so it's no surprise that its approach to data protection for the road warrior encompasses not only backup and restore but a number of management tools with reporting and administration options for the IT support team. The Altiris Recovery Solution is available as a standalone application, but it's also designed to integrate into Altiris' much larger group of enterprise applications for asset, client and server management. Licenses cost between $35 and $50 per seat based on volume; the core server software is free.
Computer Associates BrightStor ARCserve Backup for Laptops & Desktops With BrightStor for Laptops & Desktops, CA obviously is looking to make the backup process simple and transparent to the user, while offering the IT manager administrative control. The client software can be centrally configured using predefined backup templates and distributed to users through e-mail or linked to an online resource.
From the client side, the user must install preconfigured client software which, after an initial baseline backup, waits for a prescheduled or user-initiated backup. The backup client can be configured to be invisible to the user and run quietly in the background, letting other tasks continue while the agent does a byte-level comparison of files requiring backup.
If the system is online during the backup procedure, compressed changes are transmitted to the server as they're identified. If no server is available, the client will create and store a compressed data file of all the changes for transmission the next time a TCP/IP connection is detected. BrightStor also can resume the transmission of a data backup from where it left off after a disconnection, and has an agent that enables the backup of open files.
Administrators can prevent the user from interrupting the backup process or can have the agent delay the process until an idle period is detected. For restoration, history length is an administrative option, but users can restore any files they need from any time a backup was made. A limited restore from local information can be made if a network resource is unavailable.
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