What is System Backup Administrator?
Storix System Backup Administrator (SBA) is a feature-rich AIX and Linux based Backup and Disaster Recovery application, which provides an easy to use graphical user interface for centralized management of system and data backup. SBA is available for standalone systems, or as a network administrator used to manage backups and restores across the network. However, SBA was designed not only to backup data files to a network server, but to also provide the ability to reinstall a complete system from scratch while providing the flexibility needed to restore the backup onto a different hardware environment. SBA is not a tape library management product. The process of randomly backing up and cataloging thousands of files is a complicated and expensive feature that is needed only in extremely large installations. SBA incorporates the features that system administrators require, including some advanced features like tape labels and support for random tape libraries and sequential autoloaders, without imposing the high cost of features they don't need.

The Need for System Backup Administrator
Other multi-platform backup products may provide centralized backup management and scheduling, but only of regular files and directories. These other products are not capable of reinstalling a complete system from scratch, or rebuilding and restoring the system from the ground up, including LVM and various different filesystem types and attributes. Those that do usually perform a "bare metal" restore, meaning you are locked into the previous configuration, even when trying to restore to different disk configurations.

Storix Solutions

• System Backup Administrator for Linux
  It was designed to perform the difficult task of recovering a Linux System that other backup products avoid. Unlike other Linux recovery and "bare-metal-restore" options, SBA understands your linux system and configuration. When reinstalling a system, the configuration is then tailored to work with your new hardware configuration. In addition, you can completely re-customize your system during the system installation process, by changing filesystem types, adding software RAID devices, converting to LVM partitions, and much more.
• System Backup Administrator for AIX
  Its a graphical interface for administration of various types of backups of AIX systems. System Backup Administrator is available in different configurations, providing options for standalone system, and centrally network administered backups. System Backup Administrator was designed not only to backup the data files to a network server, but also provide ability to reinstall a complete system from scratch while providing the flexibility needed to restore the backup onto a different harware environment.

License Options
All products available for a 30-day free trial.

• Desktop Edition
  This inexpensive option is available only for personal (non-commercial) use. Options provided are those typically required for a Linux/x86 home system. (Not available for AIX or Linux on IBM pSeries & OpenPower systems.)
• Workstation Edition
  This more advanced option provides all available backup and recovery features for local system backups to tape or hard disk, and is available for commercial use. This includes all available features needed for standalone system backups. No client/server options are provided.
• Network Administrator
  This option provides all the available backup features of the Workstation Edition, but allows the local system to act as an administrator for any number of other systems configured as backup clients or media servers. Backups and restores, even system installations may be performed from a remote system. A single Network Administrator license is required, and the price is based on the total number of unique clients and servers to be supported.
• Client/Server
  Install this license onto any system to be managed by a Network Administrator, including backup clients and backup media servers. Licensing of these systems is managed by the Network Administrator.
• MS Windows/ Mac OS X (SMB) Data Backup
  Install this single system license for a specified number of Windows, Mac OS X or other SMB clients on the network to enable remote backup and restore to from an SMB share, or "shared folder". Installing this feature will allow configuration of SMB clients, which are backed up through an existing Linux client, serving as an "SMB host". The Network Administrator manages all SMB Licenses.
• Data Encryption for Backups
  Install this single system license onto any one system managed by a Network Administrator or for a Workstation Edition for which you want to encrypt the data being backed-up. Data Encryption for Backup Licenses can be managed by a Network Administrator for multiple system installation, or by the Workstation Edition to which it is licensed.