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Welcome to SEP sesam
Backup | Restore | Disaster Recovery
SEP sesam is an automatic data backup system for diverse computing environments. It provides powerful and comprehensive enterprise-critical data backup and recovery solutions for a wide range of environments of any size or complexity. From single data servers to large, complex data centers with large databases and scalable storage area networks.
Specifically designed for the server/client environment, SEP sesam's modular design and flexibility allow it to be completely tailored to the needs of any company or organization, regardless of size or backup strategy.
Extremely efficient, patented algorithms, whose implementation requires only limited processor overheads, combined with high transfer rates ensure that SEP sesam delivers some of the best performance in the industry.
SEP sesam's platform-independent architecture supports Linux, Microsoft Windows, and various UNIX systems, and all standard tape drives, disk drives and auto loading devices. A platform-independent graphical user interface (GUI) and a browser-based Web UI enable backup and restore remotely via WAN, VPN, etc., or to the network.
SEP sesam Features
SEP sesam provides the following features and functionality:
- Powerful administration
- Fast and easy installation on standard O/S configurations. Less than one minute on SUSE and RedHat!
- Selection of optimal data paths throughout the network
- User configurable Command Line Interfaces (Alarm, Pre/Post, Notify, Disaster, etc.)
- Powerful REST API for data extraction and configuration
- Powerful scheduling tool allows development of flexible media strategies to avoid delays and missed backups
- Comprehensive backup & restore
- SEP sesam creates a test backup and restore upon installation to verify that the system is running.
- Full, Differential, Incremental and Copy (for off-site storage) backups
- Scheduled backups using user/administrator selected events
- Full and selective restore to original paths or newly-created directories with original path structure preserved
- Fast data restore via effective administration of backup savesets and implementation of well-designed search algorithms
- Authentication and authorization to define user roles and access permissions
- Integrated Si3 software deduplication with extremely efficient deduplication rates based on variable block-length. The in-memory technology achieves best performance figures. Si3 deduplication is the basis for target and source side deduplication, replication, cloud backup and SiS (SEP Immutable Storage).
- SEP NEWDAY
- SEP NEWDAY allows extensive backups to be recorded on the same calendar day
- For example, backups started on a Friday and ending before 8 am the following Monday can be recorded onto the same backup day
- Multiplex streaming
- SEP sesam's true multi-stream/multiplexed backup feature allows large amounts of data to be backed up in the shortest possible time.
- Multi-stream backup handles from five up to several hundered data streams to serve any size of data center and amount of data
- Opening up multiple streams for backups minimizes system resource usage for data backup tasks
- Online modules
- Online modules for the most widely-used database and groupware solutions allow backups to be performed while the applications are active, providing the highest data availability possible
- For MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle, SAP (NetWeaver, MaxDB, HANA), DB2, HCL DOMINO, MySQL/MariaDB, POSTGRES/ENTERPRISEDB, INFORMIX and all OES TSA-based services (have a look at our SEP sesam OS and Database Support Matrix)
- Restores can also be performed while the apps are running, including the option of restoring single mail boxes and individual mail files
- Graphical user interface (GUI)
- Platform-independent JAVA-based graphical user interface (GUI)
- Master GUI design provides full access to clients and servers
- Easy task selection, flexible media strategy and setup via GUI or Master GUI
- Browser-based WebUI
- Uses HTML5 and json objects by using REST API calls
- Can be used as a self service restore assistant, for reporting and monitoring as well as restarting tasks
- Considers authentication and autorization configurations
- Offers more features than the GUI (e.g. cross-platform mount) and is continuously improved and enhanced
- Device support & functionality
- Supports all standard backup devices, disks, tapes, tape autoloaders and tape libraries, and cloud APIs
- Supports HPE StoreOnce via Catalyst (Catalyst Copy, bandwidth optimized, application side backup, Cloud Bank Storage and HPE Cloud Volumes)
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (D2D2T) functionality delivers further enduring security for maximum performance by backup and restore
- Extensive platform support
- Backup server on most Linux distributions (including OES) and on Windows
- Clients for Linux, Windows, UNIX derivatives
- Supports several HW architectures like x64, AMD and IBM Power