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SPFS - a filesystem for Spectrum Protect v1.0

Mount your Spectrum Protect filespace anywhere on your server. Browse your backups with   ls  or   dir   command.

This filesystem support WORM (Write Once Read Many); once you have copied a file, it can't be changed, or removed.  Removal can be granted by backup administrator. To enhance security more, the content can be encrypted using private encryption keys.

Features included in the product:
. encryption: all, or selective part of the content locations
. data reduciton: using advanced de-duplication and compression techniques
. filtering: refuse certain data types
. versioning: if a file with the same name is copied over an already existing file with the same name, than there will be two (2) different versions of the same name in the filesystem, where the older version of the file will be presented with a relative version number of (-1) meaning 1 version older than last version.
. retention: content can be controlled using retention policy set by the Spectrum Protect Server. Limit number of versions, or age of files and objects
. mount filesystem as    archive     or      backup
.  data redundancy: make extra copies of your data using node replication, or similar

SPFS can be used to protect anything by Spectrum Protect
Just mount your Spectrum Protect filespace anywhere on your server

# mount -t spfs /backup

Now you can backup anything as easy as a file copy

# cp my-backup /backup

Backup directly to the Spectrum Protect backup Server as you would have done to local filesystem.
Restore directly from the Spectrum Protect backup Server as you would have done from local filesystem.

Eg:
# mysqldump > /backup/my.dmp
# mysql < /backup/my.dmp

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