UNMATCHED INTEGRITY + RELIABILITY
OWC ArGest BRU provides a level of data integrity and reliability no other backup solution can match because it combines data backup and restore in one, easy-to-use, cost-effective package. From personal photo, home movie, and music collections to billion-dollar blockbuster movies, research, finance, and even NASA’s long-range mission data, OWC ArGest BRU has provided peace of mind data backup and recovery since 1985.
CASE STUDY
PRESERVING CLASSIC FILMS
The Austrian Film Museum examined a multitude of storage options while seeking long-term digital asset preservation. Standard storage options— HDDs, SSDs, optical discs, and the cloud—were deemed not acceptable when considering the long-term storage needs of archival institutions and film makers. After deciding to use Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape for storage, museum officials selected ArGest Software Solutions because of their history in the enterprise, educational, and research environments as well as the consistent tape format and backwards compatibility for old archives.
What sealed museum officials’ choice of ArGest Software Solutions to access and preserve classic films was a demonstration where all of the data written on QIC-150 tapes in 1988 on Unix midrange systems was restored to modern Linux and OS X systems completely intact using the latest version of ArGest BRU. This incredible example of reliability and long-term viability was exactly what officials were seeking in an archival solution. The fact that it can be done with drag and drop simplicity was the perfect closing credit roll.
Equally influential was ArGest BRU’s ability to migrate existing archives from one media technology to another—such as LTO-3 to LTO-5 or even AIT to LTO. This provides the museum a technology growth path so they can maintain older archives as new storage technologies evolve. Ensuring you can readily restore a tape created today decades from now is a key requirement for long-term archival projects.
Effective. Accurate. Reliable.
Common backup utilities are unable to deliver backups you can fully trust because they lack verification capabilities, error detection/error recovery, and the ability to detect the backup is damaged in some way or that the hardware being used is failing/failed.
ArGest BRU allows you to verify the accuracy of the backup, either immediately following the backup, or off-line to shorten the backup window. You can even verify your backups on a different system. Should altered or corrupt data be detected during a restore, ArGest BRU attempts to re-read it with advanced recovery algorithms. If the data remains unreadable even after multiple passes, ArGest BRU reports the specific error location, advances the tape, and continues to read until good data is found. The restore process continues returning the maximum amount of data…unlike other backup applications which will abort the restore process leaving you with incomplete and inaccessible data.
Unmatched compatibility and functionality
ArGest BRU is the only genuinely cross-platform backup and archival solution on the market today. It can be used to clone drive content, create a deep archive for offsite retention, or perform daily backups of your corporate data infrastructure to a secure cloud environment.
With stream-based, checksumming, anytime verify feature, ArGest BRU’s fully cross-platform device compatibility will never leave you with archives tied to a data set, specific OS, or type of hardware. In short, if your system can see it, ArGest BRU can write to it.