BakStor Installation and Administration Manual
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1. Introduction
The BakStor products are specifically designed to provide backup and Data Security to any
workplace equipped with an Ethernet network. It is totally independent of any host system's
operating system. The functions are performed by an internal CPU coupled with high-speed
system memory and firmware. In effect, it endows the workplace network with a high-speed and
fault-tolerant Backup and Data security storage operation using industry leading technologies
such as iSCSI (Internet Small Computer System Interface), RAID (Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Disks), Snapshot and AiiR (Automated Internal Intelligent Replication) technology.
BakStor products have comprehensive management that incorporates today’s industry demands
such as RAID, D2D (Disk To Disk) and Tape Backup. Hot swapping of a failed drive followed
with background rebuilding of data. Spare drives can be dedicated, which is ready to restore
data from any failed drive in the system. What’s remarkable is all these failure recovery
procedures are transparent to the workplace.
Storage capacity can be maintained or expanded by adding or replacing disk drives without
powering down the system.
Fault tolerance can also be instructed to the workplace using network AFT, ALB and 802.3ad
industry leading network topologies.
BakStor products have been designed with ease of integration and maintenance in mind. All
major features are described in the following chapter.
