NovaBACKUP^® Remote Workforce 12.5

What's New in 12.5

Faster Installations and Improved "Out of Box" Experience

NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce 12.5 allows you to centrally manage end user backup and restores seamlessly with zero configuration on their end. Centralized management of all your systems can be setup within minutes.

• Easy administration
• Elimination of user error during setup
• Faster project implementation

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Optimal Use of Current Technologies

Automatic and Secure Backup to NAS-File Systems: In IT environments with several users or user groups, password protected NAS directories are often implemented. With NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce 12.5 the NAS directory is available for backups independent of individual users' sign-in status. Version 12.5 registers automatically at the selected NAS directory and carries out the backup as scheduled.

• High degree of automation
• Utilizes all NAS benefits
• Compliance with corporate security-policies
• Reliable data protection

Get with the Times. NovaBACKUP 12.5 has the latest technology covered, now including support for MS SQL 2012 and VMware ESXi / vSphere 5.0.

• High flexibility
• Secure investment
• Support of Exchange, SQL, VMware and Hyper-V with a single license (no add-ons necessary)

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Reduced Backup Windows and Response Times

Reduce the time it takes to protect any number of virtual machines under VMware. Substantial speed enhancements for NovaStor's private cloud platform saves you time and money, while increasing user satisfaction. NovaStor has reduced backup windows for virtual machines with a speed acceleration of up to ten times.

• Reliable protection of growing data
• High speed
• Efficient use of resources

Improved Scalability and Performance

Protect larger amounts of data faster with NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce 12.5's improved response times and optimized transmission of large volumes of files.

• Future-proof solution
• Scalability for growing data load
• High performance for efficiency

Key Benefits

Benefit now from protecting your remote employees and offices with NovaBACKUP® Remote Workforce!

• Backup and restore workstations and servers in different locations - no VPN connection needed
• Manage and monitor all processes via remote access at a central management console – supported by any internet browser
• One solution for workstations, laptops and servers (including SQL, Exchange, virtual machines)
• For any size of infrastructure – from 5 to thousands of machines.
• Schedule and run backup jobs automatically – employees need no longer backup their data
• Additional local backup functionality and local DR at the same user interface – for best practice data protection.
• Award winning, intuitive client interface.

Local Backup Features

• Automatic processes and notification
• Mapped Drive Recognition
• Device Spanning
• Virus Scanning
• Data Encryption
• Open File Backup Support
• Tape Backup Support
• Blu-Ray and Removable Media Support
• Fast Bit Technology
• and much more...

Functions

Remote Workforce is not only fast efficient and easy-to-use but also full of great functions.

Central Management Console

NovaStor introduces the new Central Management Console. The Management Console features a modern, easy to use, web browser-based user interface which is designed to manage multiple installations of widely distributed NovaBACKUP clients (including Remote Workforce clients) in a LAN or through the internet.

Description

The remote management of NovaBACKUP clients essentially works the say way as is done using the NovaBACKUP user interface. A Dashboard provides the most important figures to get an immediate status of all connected NovaBACKUP installations and wizards help to create, delete, modify, and schedule backup-jobs. It’s possible to “drill down” into the file system of a single NovaBACKUP to select specific files and folders as well as selecting SQL, Exchange and VMware Virtual machines.

Backup policies can be applied to a single NovaBACKUP client, or a group of them. This way it’s very easy to deploy policies to any number of NovaBACKUP clients. This is very useful if whole companies are managed and require the same individual policies.

Reports, such as the total amount of failed backups (if any), or how many failures have occurred over a period of time for a specific NovaBACKUP client or group of NovaBACKUP’s, are available.

Key Features

• Remote Management and Control of all NovaBACKUP Clients (including Remote Workforce clients)
• Manages from one up to thousands of widely distributed NovaBACKUP clients.
• Remotely create, modify and schedule backup jobs created by the Management Console.
• The management of backup jobs is essentially working the same way as it is done using the NovaBACKUP user interface
• On demand backups and restores
• A backup job can be started, stopped
• Manages from one up to thousands of widely distributed NovaBACKUP clients
• The Central Management Console can”drill down“into the file system of a single NBK to select specific files and folders as well as SQL, Exchange and VM's from ESX(i) 4.0+ and vSphere servers
• Reports are summarizing specific and overall operation
• User interface can be displayed by all popular browsers
• Remote access to local log files of the NovaBACKUP client

NovaBACKUP^® Remote Workforce

Local and Online Protection of Business Critical Data

• Workstations, Microsoft Office and multimedia data
• Servers, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL
• Option: Unlimited and agentless backup of virtual machines based on VMware servers (see software requirements)

Offsite Data Protection at Headquarters or 3rd Party Data Centers

• Short backup windows and low bandwidth requirements with FastBIT 3 New
• End-to-end AES encryption for secure data transfer and storage
• Open file backup
• The ability to replicate the storage server enables companies to increase data availability and to prepare for server downtimes by keeping a redundant real-time copy of all changes employees make to their backup data. New
• Password protection and virus scan of backed up data
• Automation of all processes
• Wizard-driven interface allows administrators to easily manage backups for all remote networks and workstations.

Availability of Functions for Local Data Backup

• Targeted provision of specific functions for specific users
• Local data backup and copy/mirror with choice of storage device
• Open file backup
• Password protection and virus scan of backed up data
• Full and differential disk imaging
• Automation of all processes
• Wizard-driven interface allows untrained users easy and secure handling of data backup and restore.

Local and Online Restore

• Selection of individual backup files and folders, easy point-in-time-restore
• Offline Disaster Recovery with the new restore manger allows administrators to create a physical disaster recovery device with all data backed up for an employee or satellite office. Using this DR storage device and the restore manager complete systems can easily be restored without the bandwidth and other constrictions of an online connection. New
• Complete system restore (local Image DR)
• Combination of image and file restore for faster recovery times
• Restore of a Microsoft Exchange or SQL server

Easy Administration

• Central management and control of all mobile and external workplaces up to file level at a single web interface
• Clear overview of users, user groups and backup profiles
• Simple granting and limiting storage quotas per user
• Automated new user setup
• Activation of individual backup functions for single users / user groups
• Efficient storage scaling by simply adding new devices (disk spanning)

Requirements

Hardware Requirements

• Dual-Core processor is recommended, but not required.
• 2 GB of RAM minimum
• 20 GB free hard drive available space on OS drive — Full installation size is approximately 300MB
• Connection to SQL server for the database is needed. To ensure stability, the system should not run unrelated applications or service, such as Exchange, FTP or other databases other than the NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce database, or anything else that is not necessary for the storage server and Remote Workforce services to function.

Supported Server Operating Systems

• Windows 2003 Standard/Web/Enterprise/SBS (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Server 2008 (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows SBS 2011
• Windows SBS 2008
• Windows Standard/Enterprise 2003 (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Server 2008 Standard/Enterprise (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition
• Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
• Windows Home Server 2003 and 2011

Supported Applications

• SQL 2003 SP2a
• SQL 2005 SP4
• SQL 2008 SP2
• Microsoft SQL 2008 R2 and SQL Express
• Exchange 2003 SP2
• Exchange 2007 SP3
• Exchange 2010 SP1

Supported Virtual Machines:

• VMware ESX(i) 4.0+ servers and vSphere licensed with the vStorage APIs
• VMware ESX(i) 5.0+ is only supported in NovaBACKUP client v12.5+

Supported Backup Devices and Media

• CD-R/W, DVD-R/W, DVD+R/W, Blu-Ray/Dual Layer
• External Hard Drives — USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire
• All Flash and Thumb Drives
• Network Storage (SAN, NAS, Mapped Network Drive, UNC path, etc.)
• SCSI, IDE and SAS Hard Drives
• Tape Drives
• PC Card (PCMCIA)
• Amazon S3, FTP (FTP, SFTP, FTPS), and Supported NovaStor xSP Storage Providers
• Remote Workforce Storage Server, external hard drives

Supported Central Management Console

• Pentium 4 or better
• 512 MB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on system drive
• Web Server (IIS or built in web server)
• Microsoft SQL (or bundled SQLite)
• .NET 3.5 SP1, .NET 4
• Windows PowerShell 1.0 (optional component)

Supported Remote Client Installations

• Windows 7 SP1 (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Vista (32/64 Bit)
• Windows XP (32/64 Bit)
• Windows Thin PC (WinTPC)

• Pentium 4 or better
• 1GB of RAM minimum
• 3 GB free hard drive available space on system drive, plus storage space for backups - Full installation size is approximately 300 MB.
• Drive where the work folder is located for the software needs 2 times the free space of the largest file that is backed up.

Supported Image DR

• Bootable CD/DVD recorder and CD/DVD media and one of the following operating systems Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 2003 or 2008

Online Storage with selected ISP partners as listed in the application interface. Also possible with FTP and Amazon S3 (Backup/Copy/Restore)

Screenshots

Documents

NovaStor offers more than just licenses. We assist you personally and with extensive information.

NovaBACKUP® Remote Workforce 12.5 Quick Start Guide   (291 KB)

NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce 12.5 Datasheet

Backing up Data in the Private Cloud

Extracting Microsoft Exchange 2010 VDF File   (1,845 KB)

Extracting Hyper-V VDF File   (1,549 KB)

Backup and Restore for Remote Offices   (263 KB)

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