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How CA ARCserve Backup Integrates with NEC CLUSTERPRO
CA ARCserve Backup is a fault-tolerant application, capable of handling failover and providing backup and restore capabilities for data residing in cluster environments.
NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster allows multiple Windows-based servers to connect with one another so that they appear to network clients to be a single, highly available system. CA ARCserve Backup supports NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster X 2.1 for Windows and NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster X 3.0 for Windows. Similar to MSCS, we need protect the cluster itself and these clustered applications.
CA ARCserve Backup support for NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster offers the following advantages:
- Ability to run on NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster and take advantage of high availability features such as:
- Automatic failover of CA ARCserve Backup services from one node in a cluster to another node.
- Ability to fail jobs over from one CA ARCserve Backup node in a cluster to another node when CA ARCserve Backup failover occurs.
- Ability to restart jobs after failover.
- Ability to install CA ARCserve Backup on an Active/Passive cluster as the SAN primary server to allow the continuation of distributed server backup operations after failover.
- Ability to use NEC cluster management tools.
- Data backup and restore functionality for NEC cluster nodes.
- Disaster protection for NEC CLUSTERPRO/ExpressCluster nodes through the Disaster Recovery Option. For more information, see the Disaster Recovery Option Guide.
