Thoth, the Egyptian god of Wisdom comes back to protect the valuable information in your network. A part of the IT Sentinel group of network solutions, it is a full-blown backup solution which allows you to keep all the data in your servers and desktops safe. By providing both local backups and remotely housed unattended and encrypted copies, you can make sure that all your information is safe in case disaster strikes. You can choose whether you would like to keep your backups in-house for protection, being able to schedule your own backups if your needs change after the initial configuration. However, you can also let us take one more worry away from you, backing up remotely on off-peak hours so that your data is safely guarded, and can be restored at a time of need.

Completely cross-platform, you can backup in any media, from inexpensive hard disk to robotized tape towers, everything from Windows laptops to Linux servers, with no difference in speed, reliability or ease. Furthermore, each backup is logged so, if something goes wrong, it can easily be detected and fixed, and your backups are always up to date, with no loss of data in case of hardware failure or external causes.

Thoth Backup System – Single Edition:

The Thoth Backup System is the perfect solution to handle backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a corporate network of computers of different kinds. It is a completely scalable solution that can scale from one single computer to hundreds of computers located over a large network.

Features List:

• Network backup/restore with centralized Director.
• Scheduling of multiple Jobs at the same time.
• Ability to run one Job at a time or multiple simultaneous Jobs.
• Job sequencing using priorities.
• Console interface to the Director allowing complete control.
• Verification of files previously cataloged, permitting a Tripwire like capability (system break-in detection).
• CRAM-MD5 password authentication between each component (daemon).
• Configurable TLS (SSL) communications encryption between each component.
• Configurable Data (on Volume) encryption on a Client by Client basis.
• Computation of MD5 or SHA1 signatures of the file data if requested.
• Restore of one or more files selected interactively either for the current backup or a backup prior to a specified time and date.
• Restore of a complete system starting from bare metal.
• Ability to recreate the catalog database by scanning backup Volumes using the bscan program.
• Catalog database facility for remembering Volumes, Pools, Jobs, and Files backed up.
• Support for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite Catalog databases.
• User extensible queries to the MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.
• Advanced Volume and Pool Management
• Labeled Volumes, preventing accidental overwriting (at least by Thoth).
• Any number of Jobs and Clients can be backed up to a single Volume. That is, you can backup and restore Linux, Unix, Sun, and Windows machines to the same Volume.
• Multi-volume saves. When a Volume is full, Thoth automatically requests the next Volume and continues the backup.
• Pool and Volume library management providing Volume flexibility (e.g. monthly, weekly, daily Volume sets, Volume sets segregated by Client, …).
• Machine independent Volume data format. Linux, Solaris, and Windows clients can all be backed up to the same Volume if desired.
• The Volume data format is upwards compatible so that old Volumes can always be read.
• A flexible message handler including routing of messages from any daemon back to the Director and automatic email reporting.
• Data spooling to disk during backup with subsequent write to tape from the spooled disk files. This prevents tape “shoe shine” during Incremental or Differential backups.
• Advanced Support for most Storage Devices
• Autochanger support using a simple shell interface that can interface to virtually any autoloader program.
• Support for autochanger barcodes — automatic tape labeling from barcodes.
• Automatic support for multiple autochanger magazines either using barcodes or by reading the tapes.
• Support for multiple drive autochangers.
• Raw device backup/restore.
• All Volume blocks (approximately 64K bytes) contain a data checksum.
• Migration support — move data from one Pool to another or one Volume to another.
• Supports writing to DVD.
• Multi-Operating System Support
• Programmed to handle arbitrarily long filenames and messages.
• GZIP compression on a file by file basis done by the Client program if requested before network transit.
• Saves and restores POSIX ACLs.
• Support for save/restore of files larger than 2GB.
• Support for 64 bit processors.
• Support ANSI and IBM tape labels.
• Consistent backup of open files on Win32 systems using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS).
• Support for path/filename lengths of up to 64K on Win32 machines (unlimited on Unix/Linux machines).
• Multi-threaded implementation.