We have about 70 systems on a WAN and we backup over a TB on the weekends right now. We don't have to worry about needing any more hardware or tapes as our network grows to allow for additional backups. We just install the software on a new server and add it to the mainframe job list. This software backs up all of our exchange system as well as all SQL databases too. All tapes are handled the same way any other mainframe tape system is handled including movement of tapes to off-site storage.
Special backups become a breeze to handle or to keep for auditing purposes.
We had told Innovation that we were going to install this operating system and wanted to use their product on it. They immediately began working on this issue. They sent us the software to run on a clustered system before their next release was scheduled to come out since they knew we were ready for it. It was then included with their next release. Send me feedback on this article.