BackupButler is a sophisticated, maintenace free appliance computer system designed to deliver total automated database backup and recovery for Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and RAC, today. The Butler does not need to be updated for new versions of Oracle like other software only based products.

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BuckupButler comes with everything you need to automatically schedule, backup and restore multiple databases and consists of a clusterable hardware appliance with powerful processors, massive amounts of fast serial ATA disk, and host agent software. It is easy to install within one hour. For very long term storage you can still use tape to archive any obsolete backup set you don't need on disk directly from the appliance with built-in archive tasks. The important concept here is recovery from DISK, not tape. Anyone who tells you they have a "disk to disk" backup system usually requires only two questions to expose the fraud: (1) Do you recover from disk or tape? Tape recovery is NOT a disk to disk backup system. (2) Do your backup files or any part of the recovery system (catalog, task logs) stay on your current NAS or SAN? If they do then you are not protected from SAN or NAS failure. And what about disaster recovery? Does anyone really believe that sending a tape offsite without a recovery catalog or current backup logs will actually suffice for a recovery system? You need a completely self contained system with it's own built in infrastructure, completely separate from everything else in your shop. That's what backup and recovery is all about.

Every major backup and recovery vendor wants you to believe that tape is ok, it's just slow on the recovery and occasionally unrecoverable but those are just a few of the necessary evils. And they want you to believe that the 2 months and the 4 person team required to build and test a recovery infrastructure is no big deal. Just buy their software. And then install the tape system. And then the tape drivers. And then the database catalog. And then the backup software. And then the monitoring software. Maybe that's why Oracle statistics show only 2% of Oracle databases backed up by RMAN, the premier Oracle backup and recovery tool. And if you think that disk snapshots are any better consider that your snapshots are going off to tape, snapshots are not point in time recovery capable, and they're very expensive because you're using costly SAN or NAS disk. Snapshots are expensive disasters waiting to happen.

BackupButler for Oracle

Buckup Butler comes with everything you need to automatically schedule, backup and restore multiple databases with Oracle RMAN and consists of a hardware appliance with pre-installed software, massive amounts of fast serial ATA disk, and our host agent software. It has built in clustering for availability and entire system mirror across WAN for disaster recovery. You can't get this capability from anyone today except BackupButler. BackupButler delivers to you all the infrastructure and automation necessary to protect all your databases with RMAN, not just the high profile ones.

Butler disks can be mounted directly on your server using our integrated iSCSI technology, or with our integrated NFS (for unix) and SAMBA (for Windows). iSCSI allows us to mirror or duplicate disks on the system in the same room for high availability, or across the world wide wan to locations on the other side of the world. This is a state of the art disaster recovery capability.

BackupButler allows you to duplicate databases easily for recovery utility or testing, since it keeps backup metadata in it's own database in addition to the RMAN catalog. This is RMAN+ since BackupButler provides additional embedded Butler tags in the RMAN task stream to do all the otherwise manual tasks for you automatically. RMAN is the premier Oracle Backup solution and in the future will be the only backup solution certified by Oracle.
BackupButler is currently in use by industry leaders :

• Security, currently in use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
• Perfomance, currently in use by Hewlett Packard
• Internet Utility, currently in use at Checkpoint
• Government, currently in use at County government backing up large core county Oracle SAP systems
• Reliability, hot swap raid disks, configured hot spares, pure Xeon Intel motherboards, Telco grade rack servers, bulletproof Linux operating systems, 24x7x365 Oracle and Java software components internally integrated, zero infrastructure build, plug and play, high availability clusters, WAN mirrors.
• Process, architecture and code patents

Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g:

Take our backup quiz!
A "NO" to any question here means you aren't backing up your database properly:

Does your current backup system allow you to recover
from disk instead of tape?

Are you happy with your current system availability
and recovery capabilities?

Does your current backup software fix corrupt blocks in
your database when backups are taken?

Do you backup only database blocks that have changed
instead of copying the entire datafile?

Do you backup your database while it is up and running?

Can you backup every database archive log of every
database you have every half hour to a completely
isolated disk?

Are ALL your databases backed up by RMAN?

Do you enjoy backup times that are 4 times faster than
tape?

Would you have a list of backup files available when you
have a disaster or would you have to search your tape
library one by one with most recent first?

Are your backup files protected by encryption or do you
just write them to tape and hope nobody takes tapes?

Does your disaster recovery infrastructure include all
of the necessary components, or is your DR just a tape?

Is your backup infrastructure ready to support new servers
or do you need to rewrite and retest scripts for each new
database?



BackupButler for Oracle has a built in RMAN database, built in webserver and built in GUI interface for scheduling, monitoring and running backup and recovery tasks automatically. Backup files and histories are stored inside the appliance for immediate access. Automatic email notification occurs at the error level you chose.

BackupButler is the fastest backup system on the planet, files go to disk and always stay on disk unless you choose to archive to tape specifically. Our Parallel multi channel write speeds cannot be duplicated with tape. Our systems are never the bottleneck in a backup regime because your server can't write the files to our system fast enough. Our systems are so fast that our customers regularly schedule multiple channel backups to the appliance concurrently.


 Automated Standby without a Standby Database

Platforming your backups to an appliance allows never before levels of reusability and capability. Our automated refresh capability replaces Oracle Standby database completely. You execute a backup from one node, a refresh on the standby node, and you have a robust Standby database replacement.

• Butler Standby dosen't break like Oracle Standby database can.
• Butler Standby dosen't cost a license like Oracle Standby database does.
• Butler Standby can be stopped, turned on and tested for operability unlike Oracle Standby database.
• Butler Standby can be duplicated easily in more than one location using Asynchronous Butler refresh.

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