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July 2001
Focus On: FDR/UPSTREAM, FDRSOS, OS/390 UNIX & S/390 LINUX
The new features at
a glance…
THE DIRECTOR
FDR/UPSTREAM now includes a
component called The Director—
a completely new full-featured GUI client
user interface that can be used for almost all
platforms, including Windows NT and 2000,
Novell NLM, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Tru64,
Linux and OS/390 Unix System Services.
See page 2 for details
LINUX SUPPORT
FDR/UPSTREAM’s powerful facilities can
now be used to manage the much reported
and fastest growing computing segment;
S/390 Linux. FDR/UPSTREAM also now
provides support for Intel-based Linux.
See page 3 for details
WINDOWS 2000
FDR/UPSTREAM support for Windows 2000
has been enhanced, including additional
interaction with Microsoft Exchange 2000.
See page 3 for details
FDR/UPSTREAM is the total storage management solution
designed for automated backup/restore/archival operations
for PC/LAN/UNIX servers to OS/390 MVS attached storage.
The Total Solution
• FDR/UPSTREAM is a powerful, feature rich, storage management
product, offering a centralized, automated and unattended control
of your Open Systems data.
• FDR/UPSTREAM allows you the power and flexibility to backup
most of today’s popular PC/LAN/UNIX systems, including
Windows NT and 2000, Novell, OS/2, Sun Solaris, AIX, UNIX,
HP-UX and now Linux.
• FDR/UPSTREAM is ‘database aware’ and supports online, hot
backups of Oracle, SAP, Domino Lotus Notes, DB2, Microsoft SQL
Server and Microsoft Exchange. Support is also provided for BMC’s
SQL-BackTrack product for Oracle, Sybase and Informix databases.
• FDR/UPSTREAM now provides a single simple solution
for OS/390 UNIX and S/390 Linux Platforms.
• For even faster backups, UPSTREAM/SOS and FDRSOS
utilize an ESCON channel connection when backing up data from
an EMC Symmetrix 3000, 5000 or 8000 subsystem.
DOMINO LOTUS NOTES
FDR/UPSTREAM has expanded the
support for Domino Lotus Notes R5.
See page 3 for details
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ORACLE DATABASES
FDR/UPSTREAM’s support for Oracle
databases has been significantly improved
with the new multi-channel support!
See page 4 for details
FDR/UPSTREAM Client 3.1.4C and OS/390 3.1.4
Now Available
FDR/UPSTREAM is now packed with more new features than ever
before. The latest release sees yet more additions to the already
extensive support for today’s popular Open Systems platforms,
as well as further enhancements in the support and interaction
of Database Management Systems (see side bar)…

The Director
The FDR/UPSTREAM Director is a completely new full-featured GUI client user interface that can be
used for almost all UPSTREAM platforms, including Windows NT and 2000, Novell NLM, AIX, Solaris,
HP-UX, Tru64, Linux and OS/390 Unix System Services.
The Director is written as a Java application and provides a user friendly “Windows” like graphical user
interface that can run on any platform that provides a Java Virtual Machine and TCP/IP support.
Using the Director you can, from a
workstation anywhere in your network,
specify backups and restores, check
the status of running operations,
retrieve log files, perform profile
configuration and more.
The FDR/UPSTREAM Director is
designed to have the ability to communicate,
control and use the current
functionality of the FDR/UPSTREAM
Client Services and OS/390 mainframe
Repository components. The Director
introduces a powerful new functionality:
centralized single view and control from
the client.
The Director does not actually perform
any backup or restore operations but
only directs them:
• It communicates directly (TCP/IP
only) with the FDR/UPSTREAM
OS/390 Repository component to
provide profile security checking,
inquire backup profile information for
viewing and deletion, profile definition
viewing, updating, additions, deletions
and re-loading, host monitoring/status
and control and to manage the server
registration list.
• It communicates directly (TCP/IP
only) and concurrently with any
number of the FDR/UPSTREAM
client services components to
initiate backup and restore actions
both physical and logical, monitor and
control backup and restore progress,
view current operation/status, get
the complete log, get physical disk
and system information.
• It produces and manipulates the
parameter or “.DAT” files which
represent an action such as backup
or restore for the Services or
Repository to use.
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Enhanced Linux Support
FDR/UPSTREAM’s powerful management facilities are now available to manage Linux!!
FDR/UPSTREAM now supports SuSE Linux on S/390 hardware! FDR/UPSTREAM’s powerful facilities can
now be used to manage the much reported and fastest growing computing segment…S/390 Linux.
FDR/UPSTREAM also now provides support for Intel-based Linux.
FDR/UPSTREAM’s Linux support includes most of the facilities available for FDR/UPSTREAM’s other UNIX
implementations including:
• Command line, character mode, and FDR/UPSTREAM Client user interface.
• Full-featured daemon.
• Backup, restore, file transfer and other FDR/UPSTREAM storage management features.
• A variety of file system features including hard links, symbolic links, owners, NFS, single file system support, etc.
Support for Windows 2000
FDR/UPSTREAM provides extensive support for Windows 2000 and has recently expanded that support
for Windows 2000 to include:
• Microsoft Exchange 2000. FDR/UPSTREAM now includes a backup agent compatible with the
Microsoft Extensible Storage Engine (ESE98) that allows online full and transaction log backups of
Microsoft Exchange 2000 databases.
• Windows 2000 User Quotas. User Quotas allow administrators to control how much disk space individual
users may consume. This support is enabled through the easy-to-use FDR/UPSTREAM feature called
PlugIns. A PlugIn is a shared library which is loaded into FDR/UPSTREAM when needed and extends
FDR/UPSTREAM’s capabilities without the use of an external program. A single backup can include files
that may or may not use PlugIns and PlugIn types can be mixed.
• Support for back up and restoring the Windows 2000 COM+ Class registration database.
• Support for back up and restoring Windows 2000 Certificate Server database. This support is enabled
through the easy-to-use FDR/UPSTREAM feature, PlugIns.
• Support for back up and restoring Windows 2000 Cluster Server quorum database and also uses the
PlugIn feature.
• Innovation has certified and documented FDR/UPSTREAM support for Windows 2000 System State
Disaster Recovery. The disaster recovery for Windows 2000 Server system state data comprises the
registry, COM+Class Registration database, system startup files, and the Certificate Services database.
These have been tested and documented.
Domino Lotus Notes
FDR/UPSTREAM has expanded the support for Domino Lotus Notes R5.
• FDR/UPSTREAM now supports multiple simultaneous backups running in parallel. This enhancement makes
the job of backing up many GB of data seem much easier…because it’s faster!
• Detection of new databases during incrementals insures that all databases are backed up to insure
that databases are completely recoverable. FDR/UPSTREAM now provides support for all active logs
in log file backups.
• FDR/UPSTREAM OS/390 UNIX provides a backup agent for Notes R5 Domino servers for OS/390 Unix
System Services. Now Domino Lotus Notes on your MVS systems can enjoy all the features available
on our other supported systems including transaction log incrementals, disaster recovery, backup via the
Notes backup API and more.
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Enhanced Oracle Support
FDR/UPSTREAM’s support for Oracle databases has been significantly improved with the new multi-channel
support! This latest enhancement supports multiple simultaneous backups running in parallel.
FDR/UPSTREAM will transparently manage the backups by splitting the backup into separate backup
profiles under the covers. No administrator intervention is required. This powerful enhancement will
significantly reduce the runtime for backups and restores!
Innovation has been a member in the Oracle Backup Solutions Provider (BSP) program that permits
FDR/UPSTREAM to operate as an Oracle Media Manager Library product. FDR/UPSTREAM supports and
can now be used with Oracle Recovery Manager (Oracle 8) or Oracle Enterprise Backup Utility (Oracle 7).
The Oracle Recovery Manager is an extremely full-featured backup facility. Through its use you can use
FDR/UPSTREAM to perform full, incremental and tablespace backups of databases, tablespaces and
datafiles. Some of the features supported include backup sets, image copies, stored scripts, Recovery
Manager reports, tags, integrity checking and more. All of the powerful features of recovery manager are
now available to FDR/UPSTREAM users under both local and host control.
FDR/UPSTREAM also provides a backup management suite for Oracle databases that include a Backup
Management tool (GUI written in Java) and command line utilities that include a scheduling utility, and a
backup and restore utility.
The FDR/UPSTREAM backup management suite for Oracle databases primarily targets databases running in
ARCHIVELOG mode and can take full advantage of FDR/UPSTREAM backup suite options, like ONLINE (hot)
backups, incremental backups of REDO logs, and perform full database and tablespace media recovery.
License Information
You can license just the components you need and want. The following components can be licensed
individually or as a package.
• FDR/UPSTREAM • FDRSOS • FDRSOS & UPSTREAM/SOS
• UPSTREAM S/390 Linux • UPSTREAM OS/390 UNIX
Different pricing options are available based on MSU’s or Terabytes installed. Contact Innovation for
further information.
FREE No-Obligation, 90-Day Trial is Available.
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