Supported Technologies

Comprehensive alert engine with reliable monitoring of backup schedules

• Highly configurable alert mechanisms to suit your needs
• Alert emails can be configured to monitor all backup events

SecurVault comes with a sophisticated alert management engine. This keeps you informed about what you need to know regarding all your backup schedules. Missed backup alerts, disk space alerts and online storage quota notification to name a few – help you effectively monitor the backups in your business.

Encrypt your backups with up to 448-bit military level encryption

• Encrypt your backups to secure your business critical data
• Added security with secure communication between SecurVault servers and client installations
• Industry standard Blowfish and Triple DES Encryption algorithms protect your data

SecurVault comes with robust security management features. SecurVault supports the industry standard Blowfish and Triple DES Encryption algorithms to secure your business data. These secure encryption techniques have never been broken. In addition, the SecurVault client and server installations communicate using a TCP/IP based secure connection which further strengthens the security features further reducing the risk of your valuable data being stolen.

Conserve bandwidth and online storage with Intelli-Delta Technology and data compression

• Intelligently backups only the incremental changes
• Conserve bandwidth and reduce operational costs for your business
• Reduces storage required enabling more backups to be stored online
• Powerful data compression based on the ZLIB algorithm

Intelli-Delta is a powerful and proven technology that performs backups for only the incremental changes in files. Instead of handling incremental changes in the block level (e.g. 4KB blocks), SecurVault’s Intelli-Delta technology goes one, actually, two steps further. SecurVault does not implement pre decided block sizes as this is often sub-optimal. For a small file, the block size may be too large and hence translate to a larger amount of data being sent than what’s required. For very large files, a small block size translates to performance degradation. SecurVault decides on individually optimal block sizes for every single file after taking into account the original file size. This ensures that for each file, changes are examined at an ‘optimised byte level’.

Additionally, SecurVault leverages RSYNC’s powerful ROLLING CHECKSUM feature – going one more step ahead of conventional approaches to incremental backups. Furthermore, all data is compressed using the industry proven ZLIB algorithm allowing for even more bandwidth and storage savings.

SecurVault supports Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

• Effortless backup of open files
• No additional license required for backing up open files for Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008 and above

In operating systems listed above, VSS provides a mechanism for creating consistent point-in-time copies of data known as ‘shadow copies’.

With VSS you can backup files even if they are in use at the time of backup. If VSS is enabled (from the advanced options menu while creating a new backup schedule), SecurVault will create a snapshot (read only copy) of the volume(s) corresponding to the configured folders/files and will thereafter backup the snapshot of the volume. Volume Shadow Copy helps SecurVault create consistent backups, ensuring that the contents do not change while the backup is underway. This helps avoid problems typically associated with file locking, since SecurVault uses a ‘read-only’ copy of the volume, it is able to access every file without conflicting with other programs writing to those same files concurrently!

This feature is especially useful in backing up exclusively locked files (of specific applications), such as the Outlook ‘pst file’ in case of Outlook backups. Please note that you do not need VSS functionality to backup databases (like SQL & Exchange) – SecurVault includes powerful support for SQL Backup & Exchange Backup!

SecurVault Pro’s Exchange Server Backup plugin uses the ESE API to backup Storage Groups and Mail Stores.

Features include:

• Optimal use of dump files for local storage: the dump file is compressed and automatically purged after use
• Support for Storage Group level and Mail Store level backup
• Straight through restore of Exchange Server backups
• Comprehensive Backup & Restore reports of Exchange Server backups
• Detailed Exchange Server Backup & Restore email reports
• Exchange Mailbox level backups

SecurVault Pro supports Exchange 2003 and above.

Features in the SQL Server plug-in include:

• Optimal use of dump files for local storage: the dump file is compressed and automatically purged after use
• Straight through restore of SQL Server backup
• Comprehensive Backup & Restore report of SQL Server backups
• Detailed SQL Server Backup & Restore email reports

SecurVault Pro’s SQL Server Backup Plugin uses the VDI API to backup database(s) before uploading them to the backup server. SecurVault Pro supports SQL Server backups for SQL Server 2000 and all higher versions.

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server, are now commonplace in most companies.

SecurVault Pro’s Sharepoint plugins features include:

• Listing of sites, documents, lists, contacts, web pages, Sharepoint databases and other items for backup / restore
• Single web console for managing backups of MS Sharepoint servers along with other backup items like Active Directory, MS Exchange, MSSQL etc.

SecurVault Pro supports a site-collection level backup of SharePoint, using the internal SharePoint utility (STSADM.EXE, offering a full fidelity backup) to take a copy of the SharePoint site-collection(s) and then uploads the locally dumped file(s) to the backup server. During a full backup, the entire site-collection(s) is taken and then transferred to the backup server. During an incremental backup, only the modified content since the previous full backup is transferred to the backup server. Sharepoint 2003 and above is supported by SecurVault Pro.

MySQL is clearly one of the more popular databases today! SecurVault Pro’s comprehensive approach to backup management now allows you to execute your MySQL backups & restores from the one familiar interface. IT managers will no longer need to have an array of application specific backup tools and difficult scripts to manage backups of MySQL databases.

SecurVault Pro is able to leverage it’s powerful core components to provide an easy to use interface for backing up MySQL databases on both Linux and Windows.

• StoreGrid performs single click backups for active directory/system state
• No need for application specific backup tools

• Easy to backup facility for all Outlook items.
• Emails, notes, schedules etc.
• Schedule Outlook backup from a directory listing of your Outlook account

The first things that require to be backed up are the critical data that reside in the form of emails and scheduling items – typically in the form of Outlook. SecurVault supports Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail (on Vista) and Outlook Express backups.

SecurVault offers a completely integrated backup and disaster recovery solution through the Disk Image (Bare-Metal) backup and restore solution. With this feature, you can restore an entire system from SecurVault backups to new hardware without requiring a reinstall of the operating system or requiring initialized disks. Typical backup recovery approaches are fraught with the following challenges:

1. Recovery of the backups can take longer than expected.
2. There is a need for restoring the operating system environment and configurations before the backup data restore function is performed.
3. Non-integrated bare-metal recovery steps (involving third party tools) can be complex and consume valuable time of your technical staff.

SecurVault’s Disk Image backup (Bare-metal backup) solves all the problems listed above. You can completely recover your systems from your SecurVault Disk Image backups. In case a backed up system loses its boot disk or suffers some other catastrophic failure, the Disk Image restore option will facilitate restoring it to the state that existed in the latest backup. You can also recover to any point in time for which a valid backup disk image exists, either full or incremental.

SecurVault uses the command line utility ‘Wbadmin’ and this is available in Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 and Windows Vista’s Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions (not in Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium editions).

Create backups from any or all of your SecurVault client systems on the fly to External Disk drives connected to your network!With the fast data transfer speeds supported by external storage devices and with the newly released USB 3.0 standard, you can exploit the power of external storages to create backups from your client networks and create copies that can be stored on external devices. This is advantageous for backing up the large quantities of not so critical data that do not need to be stored in a secure off-site location.

Comprehensive alert engine with reliable monitoring of backup schedules

• Highly configurable alert mechanisms to suit your needs
• Alert emails can be configured to monitor all backup events

SecurVault comes with a sophisticated alert management engine. This keeps you informed about what you need to know regarding all your backup schedules. Missed backup alerts, disk space alerts and online storage quota notification to name a few – help you effectively monitor the backups in your business.

Encrypt your backups with up to 448-bit military level encryption

• Encrypt your backups to secure your business critical data
• Added security with secure communication between SecurVault servers and client installations
• Industry standard Blowfish and Triple DES Encryption algorithms protect your data

SecurVault comes with robust security management features. SecurVault supports the industry standard Blowfish and Triple DES Encryption algorithms to secure your business data. These secure encryption techniques have never been broken. In addition, the SecurVault client and server installations communicate using a TCP/IP based secure connection which further strengthens the security features further reducing the risk of your valuable data being stolen.

Conserve bandwidth and online storage with Intelli-Delta Technology and data compression

• Intelligently backups only the incremental changes
• Conserve bandwidth and reduce operational costs for your business
• Reduces storage required enabling more backups to be stored online
• Powerful data compression based on the ZLIB algorithm

Intelli-Delta is a powerful and proven technology that performs backups for only the incremental changes in files. Instead of handling incremental changes in the block level (e.g. 4KB blocks), SecurVault’s Intelli-Delta technology goes one, actually, two steps further. SecurVault does not implement pre decided block sizes as this is often sub-optimal. For a small file, the block size may be too large and hence translate to a larger amount of data being sent than what’s required. For very large files, a small block size translates to performance degradation. SecurVault decides on individually optimal block sizes for every single file after taking into account the original file size. This ensures that for each file, changes are examined at an ‘optimised byte level’.

Additionally, SecurVault leverages RSYNC’s powerful ROLLING CHECKSUM feature – going one more step ahead of conventional approaches to incremental backups. Furthermore, all data is compressed using the industry proven ZLIB algorithm allowing for even more bandwidth and storage savings.

SecurVault supports Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)

• Effortless backup of open files
• No additional license required for backing up open files for Windows XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008 and above

In operating systems listed above, VSS provides a mechanism for creating consistent point-in-time copies of data known as ‘shadow copies’.

With VSS you can backup files even if they are in use at the time of backup. If VSS is enabled (from the advanced options menu while creating a new backup schedule), SecurVault will create a snapshot (read only copy) of the volume(s) corresponding to the configured folders/files and will thereafter backup the snapshot of the volume. Volume Shadow Copy helps SecurVault create consistent backups, ensuring that the contents do not change while the backup is underway. This helps avoid problems typically associated with file locking, since SecurVault uses a ‘read-only’ copy of the volume, it is able to access every file without conflicting with other programs writing to those same files concurrently!

This feature is especially useful in backing up exclusively locked files (of specific applications), such as the Outlook ‘pst file’ in case of Outlook backups. Please note that you do not need VSS functionality to backup databases (like SQL & Exchange) – SecurVault includes powerful support for SQL Backup & Exchange Backup!

SecurVault Pro’s Exchange Server Backup plugin uses the ESE API to backup Storage Groups and Mail Stores.

Features include:

• Optimal use of dump files for local storage: the dump file is compressed and automatically purged after use
• Support for Storage Group level and Mail Store level backup
• Straight through restore of Exchange Server backups
• Comprehensive Backup & Restore reports of Exchange Server backups
• Detailed Exchange Server Backup & Restore email reports
• Exchange Mailbox level backups

SecurVault Pro supports Exchange 2003 and above.

Features in the SQL Server plug-in include:

• Optimal use of dump files for local storage: the dump file is compressed and automatically purged after use
• Straight through restore of SQL Server backup
• Comprehensive Backup & Restore report of SQL Server backups
• Detailed SQL Server Backup & Restore email reports

SecurVault Pro’s SQL Server Backup Plugin uses the VDI API to backup database(s) before uploading them to the backup server. SecurVault Pro supports SQL Server backups for SQL Server 2000 and all higher versions.

Collaboration tools like Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server, are now commonplace in most companies.

SecurVault Pro’s Sharepoint plugins features include:

• Listing of sites, documents, lists, contacts, web pages, Sharepoint databases and other items for backup / restore
• Single web console for managing backups of MS Sharepoint servers along with other backup items like Active Directory, MS Exchange, MSSQL etc.

SecurVault Pro supports a site-collection level backup of SharePoint, using the internal SharePoint utility (STSADM.EXE, offering a full fidelity backup) to take a copy of the SharePoint site-collection(s) and then uploads the locally dumped file(s) to the backup server. During a full backup, the entire site-collection(s) is taken and then transferred to the backup server. During an incremental backup, only the modified content since the previous full backup is transferred to the backup server. Sharepoint 2003 and above is supported by SecurVault Pro.

MySQL is clearly one of the more popular databases today! SecurVault Pro’s comprehensive approach to backup management now allows you to execute your MySQL backups & restores from the one familiar interface. IT managers will no longer need to have an array of application specific backup tools and difficult scripts to manage backups of MySQL databases.

SecurVault Pro is able to leverage it’s powerful core components to provide an easy to use interface for backing up MySQL databases on both Linux and Windows.

• StoreGrid performs single click backups for active directory/system state
• No need for application specific backup tools

• Easy to backup facility for all Outlook items.
• Emails, notes, schedules etc.
• Schedule Outlook backup from a directory listing of your Outlook account

The first things that require to be backed up are the critical data that reside in the form of emails and scheduling items – typically in the form of Outlook. SecurVault supports Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail (on Vista) and Outlook Express backups.

SecurVault offers a completely integrated backup and disaster recovery solution through the Disk Image (Bare-Metal) backup and restore solution. With this feature, you can restore an entire system from SecurVault backups to new hardware without requiring a reinstall of the operating system or requiring initialized disks. Typical backup recovery approaches are fraught with the following challenges:

1. Recovery of the backups can take longer than expected.
2. There is a need for restoring the operating system environment and configurations before the backup data restore function is performed.
3. Non-integrated bare-metal recovery steps (involving third party tools) can be complex and consume valuable time of your technical staff.

SecurVault’s Disk Image backup (Bare-metal backup) solves all the problems listed above. You can completely recover your systems from your SecurVault Disk Image backups. In case a backed up system loses its boot disk or suffers some other catastrophic failure, the Disk Image restore option will facilitate restoring it to the state that existed in the latest backup. You can also recover to any point in time for which a valid backup disk image exists, either full or incremental.

SecurVault uses the command line utility ‘Wbadmin’ and this is available in Windows 2008 Server, Windows 7 and Windows Vista’s Business, Enterprise and Ultimate editions (not in Windows Vista Home Basic or Home Premium editions).

Create backups from any or all of your SecurVault client systems on the fly to External Disk drives connected to your network!With the fast data transfer speeds supported by external storage devices and with the newly released USB 3.0 standard, you can exploit the power of external storages to create backups from your client networks and create copies that can be stored on external devices. This is advantageous for backing up the large quantities of not so critical data that do not need to be stored in a secure off-site location.