BRU was selected as Spring Show Favorite for Utilities and Summer Show Favorite for File Storage/Recovery Product at Linuxworld Expo
Thank you!
 Winner of the Linux Journal Reader's Choice
"Best Backup Utility" four years running!
"When I purchase software, I expect it to work without problems or conflicts. This software does what it is supposed to do, and does it very well. EST obviously is experienced in the world of network data storage backups."
- Steve Arntzen, Engineering Systems, Inc.
"BRU is a solid product, well tested and works as advertised"
- Tom Loosbrock, Unisys Corporation
"We needed a backup utility that was 100% reliable. Our upgrade went out to 500 locations. 2 weeks later all sites were upgraded and not one tape failed to restore. I'm convinced this would not have been possible if not for BRU."
- Ray Knittel, Ferrellgas
"BRU continues to be the only backup technology I feel is reliable enough to trust my business records to."
- Phillip J. Paustian, M.D.
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BRU for Linux ships with CRU. Click here for more information
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With Most Unix
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BRU Provides
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You receive NO verification that your data was properly written to tape.
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Data Verification: You have three different options - AUTOSCANTM by default, ANYTIME VERIFYTM, and bit-level comparison.
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Errors leave you "dead in the water," unable to recover additional data.
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Error Detection and Recovery capability for maximum data recovery
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You might NOT be backing up all of your critical files.
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Backs up and restores all files with all attributes intact
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Fully Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliant Date Processing - BRU utilizes a 4 digit year field in all of its date processing operations. Additionally, BRU understands that a year field entered as '02' means 2002, not 1902.
Support for NIS/DCE Clustered Password files (NOT IN Personal Edition) - BRU recognizes NIS/DCE clustered password environments and provides proper support for user name and uid assignments across clusters of unlimited size (depending upon your NIS implementation, of course). This allows the user to backup files in clustered environments using the '-o' switch to get all files "owned" by a given user (either by name or numeric uid).
XBRU, our X11 GUI Interface - BRU now offers a simple-to-use GUI that simplifies the command line tasks.
[ Click here ] for more details about XBRU
Backup and Restore Microsoft Windows, DOS, IBM OS/2 and other SMB compatible clients (NOT IN Personal Edition) - BRU
will allow you to use the smbmount capabilities provided by SAMBA and smbmount on most UNIX systems to successfully backup and restore systems over a tcp/ip network. SAMBA is available
for ALL of the systems that BRU is available for and will even allow you to backup SMB enabled VMS and Netware environments. SAMBA information is available from any of the following:
Tape Writes Counter BRU can help you keep track of how many times a BRU tape has been written to. This allows you to more carefully track tape age and recycle or remove tapes based on criteria that you assign. The new "writecnt" function will return the number of times that a BRU tape has been written as its return code so that you can more easily handle tapes within scripts and other front-ends for BRU.
Easier Restore of RAW data volumes (NOT IN Personal Edition). BRU recognizes when a RAW volume backup on tape matches an existing RAW volume and restores it automatically when the new -QD switch is used.
Translate On RestoreTM (NOT IN Personal Edition) BRU will now allow you, via a translation file, to restore files from one location to another location with automatic name and path conversion.
RAW Partition Backup/Restore (NOT IN Personal Edition) BRU 14.2 will now backup and restore those raw database partitions (or any other defined raw partition) directly instead of forcing you to use dd.
SMART RESTORETM Restoring shared libraries and open files is no longer reason to cringe - BRU now handles the restore of these files without risk of bringing your system to a halt.
On-Tape Directory BRU now offers to option of placing a listing of the files being backed up onto the head of the tape - allowing you to get a contents listing without scanning the entire tape.
Improved Data Compression - BRU now provides more robust and faster data compression. BRU also automatically recognizes compressed files and doesn't attempt to compress them further (which COULD result in the file's becoming larger)
Data Verification. BRU ensures that your backup is correct by verifying archives in two different ways, using checksums or by doing a bit-by-bit comparison with the original file. Error Detection and Recovery. BRU detects and recovers from most errors that occur while reading or writing. Unlike other utilities which stop on errors, BRU makes several attempts to read and recover the maximum amount of data from damaged archives.
Unattended Backups. A special background mode lets you schedule BRU to run under cron, allowing backups to be performed overnight.
Handle Special Files. BRU will backup and restore all types of files, including special device files, links (symbolic and hard), pipes, empty directories -- all the files that are skipped by utilities like tar. BRU will backup and restore every single file on your disk.
Faster Crash Recovery. Since BRU will backup and restore all files, this saves time and makes it easier to restore your system in the event of a crash.
AUTOSCANTM Verification. BRU will automatically "scan" each archive tape and verify it for errors immediately after it is written. This feature has been customer-proven to detect problems caused by hardware or software errors. It works like an "early warning system" and will catch problems before they become serious -- like a tape drive that is just starting to fail.
Multiple Volume Archives. With BRU, archives can span more than one tape. This allows you to do backups of any size.
Data Compression. BRU can save space on your archive tape by compressing the data while it does a backup. Files are usually compressed by 10% to 90% (depending on the type of data). Like all BRU data, the compressed files are saved in a special error-detection format. Compression is done in memory (no temporary disk space is used), so files of any size can be compressed. To save time, BRU will not try to compress files that are already compressed.
Network Backups (NOT IN Personal Edition). The fileserver version will back up files over a network. If you have NFS, you can run BRU on the network fileserver and use it to backup all the other machines. Or you can run it on the local machine and write backups to a remote-mounted tape drive.
Speed Your Backup. BRU is "tunable" for maximum performance. It depends on your system, but often BRU will run 10% to 400% faster than other utilities.
Back Up Live Filesystems. It's not necessary to go into single-user mode. You can backup all the mounted filesystems or choose individual filesystems.
Selective Backups. Sometimes you don't want to back up everything. You can save time by backing-up only the files that have changed (incremental or differential backups). Other options let you select by owner or type of file. Handles Sparse Files. BRU will backup and restore large sparse files properly.
Include/Exclude Files. You can tell BRU to include or exclude certain files or directories while doing a backup (or restore). By specifying certain patterns (wildcard or regular expressions) you can perform customized backups.
Handle Long Pathnames. BRU will backup and restore files with pathnames up to 1023 characters in length. This is useful for networked systems or for filesystems with deep directories. Other backup utilities such as tar can only handle pathnames of 100 characters or less.
Built-in Help Pages. Useful when you're in a jam and can't find the manual. Automatic Execution Logging. Backups are serious business. You want to know if anything went wrong. BRU will automatically write any warning or error messages to a special execution log file. The log also contains time- stamped messages that tell when BRU started and stopped. This will let you monitor your backups and how much time they take.
Archive Labels. For easy identification, tapes are automatically labeled with date/time and machine type information when they are created. An optional 63 character label can also be specified by the user.
Handle Any Type of Device. BRU works with all kinds of Unix backup devices, including floppies, streaming tapes, 9- track, 4mm DAT, 8mm Exabyte and others.
Backup Assistance Hotline. If you do have problems, we're here to help. FREE for 30 days from first contact (within six months of purchase) and renewable for 12 more months at a low cost.
Versions of BRU are available for most versions of Unix. Give us a call to see if your system is supported!
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