About Microlite Corporation
Microlite Corporation has been in business since 1983, and has been committed to the Backup Software Marketplace since 1987.
We're the leader in Bare Metal Disaster Recovery Technology for Linux (IA32 and EM64T/AMD64 architectures), SCO OpenServer 6, OpenServer 5, and UnixWare 7, and we were the first company to bring a commercial bare metal disaster recovery product to market for each of those operating systems, as well as SCO Unix 3.2.x. We are recognized as having the most advanced bare metal disaster recovery product available for each of those platforms.
Our backup product contains many advanced features, including...
- Encrypted Archives. Using a combination of 2048-bit RSA and 256-bit AES encryption, our optional encryption module creates secure archives easily.
- MySQL™ Hot backups. Performed as part of a system backup or as a separately scheduled task.
- Blu-ray Disc™ re-writable media support, including bootable bare-metal disaster recovery and multiple archives per medium.
- S3 Backups. Backup servers to the Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (S3) web cloud.
- FTP Backups. Any remote server, device or appliance with fully functional FTP / FTPS server can be used to store backups. This includes most desktop and rackmount NAS devices. A special re-startable mode can be used when unreliable connections are involved.
- D2D Backups. Removable/spare hard disks can hold multiple generations of archives, and be mounted and unmounted automatically as necessary.
- Advanced Device Support. Detection, control, support, and diagnostics, including TapeAlert™.
- Microlite Fast File Restore™. The most advanced Quick File Access technology available, it works on SCSI tape drives for all platforms, and also on ATAPI tape drives under Linux and UnixWare.
- Microlite Instant File Restore™. For SharpDrive™, Optical, REV™, AWS, FTP and FSP backups. Provides less than 1 second access times when restoring from these Resource types.
- ACL Support. It you are using Access Control Lists for additional security in your operating environment, we'll back them up and restore them automatically.
- Full File Checksum Verify. While others stop at bit-level and header checksum verify, BackupEDGE adds a third verify type to ensure that archives can be read reliably months or even years later.
- SCSI / SAS Autochanger/Library Support. No "works with operating system commands" here. Like our Advanced Device Support, we use our own command set, complete with a User API and complete PVT (barcode) support.
- Remote Device Support. We back up to remote devices on a network as easily as we backup up to local drives. Restore, Fast File Restore / Instant File Restore, and even bare metal Disaster Recovery work just the same as if the device was locally attached. Runs transparently over an ssh (or even an rsh) connection.
- Automatic Device Detection and Setup. During installation, our Setup Wizard automatically detects and configures each of your tape, autoloader and optical devices. You don't even need to know the device name.
- Multi-Functional User Interface. A single integrated user interface runs in character mode, graphical mode or as a web service allowing remote administration from any broswer with a Java plug-in.
If you have never used a Microlite backup product, we invite you to download a free, fully functional demo copy from our ftp site, or check out our brochures and technical articles for additional information. Our products are available from better UNIX and Linux distributors, VARs and dealers throughout the world .
From the President
Thanks for visiting our web site. At Microlite Corporation our daily mission is to provide you with the finest possible products and service.
2010 brought BackupEDGE 3.0, a new release providing exciting new capabilities. Among other improvements, we're breaking new ground with a fantastic new scheduler, and enhanced support for tape drives, REV drives and optical media, including Blu-ray Disc™.
SharpDrive™ Media was introduced. This is an entirely new and innovative way of accessing and utilizing USB flash drives, hard drives and cartridge drives and SATA cartridge drives for backup and disaster recovery. Since it is from Microlite, it has more capability than any other product offering.
We've increased the value of Amazon S3 "cloud storage" twice during 2011, offering lower pricing, more storage, and more locations around the world. Remember, the monthly fee is pro-rated, making it easy to try the service for a few days for just a couple of bucks. As bandwidth becomes cheaper, this option will increasingly become a better value. See our Amazon S3 section for additional information.
We made some significant improvements to our "FTP Backups" capabilities.
Our engineers have been relentless in keeping up with the changes in newer Linux distributions. Please check out our Linux Support Tables to see what we've been working on, and what's coming up next.
2011 will bring more capabilites, starting with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 support in 03.00.03 build 3, as we strive to keep BackupEDGE a "best-of-breed" product and provide first-class support. We're in the process of a major bandwidth upgrade into our building, which will greatly speed our web site, FTP site and other connections to the outside world.
Please feel free to contact me personally with suggestions for improving our products or our company.
Kindest regards,
Tom Podnar
President
September 1, 2011