Firestreamer - Overview
Firestreamer Overview
Firestreamer is a software utility that enables the existing tape backup software to directly access a wide range of non-tape storage media, eliminating the need for tape drives. Firestreamer can use HDD, Blu-ray, DVD, Iomega REV, network file systems and other types of media as underlying storage, exposing the pieces of media as virtual tape cartridges.
Features
- Seamless integration with your backup software.
- Built-in strong data encryption.
- Built-in data compression.
- Support for media spanning (when a backup takes more than one piece of media).
- Support for the media drives without drive letters assigned.
- Fast direct writing to the storage medium without intermediate files.
Supported Software
- Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007.
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 or newer (all x86 and x64 editions).
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (all x86 and x64 editions).
Supported Media
- Hard disk drives (HDD).
- Blu-ray (BD-RW, BD-R, BD-RW DL, BD-R DL).
- HD DVD (experimental support for HD DVD-RAM and HD DVD-R).
- DVD (DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R DL). Note that DVD-R/RW is not supported.
- Iomega REV (both 35 and 70 GB).
- Flash memory, including pen drives, CompactFlash, SecureDigital and so on.
- Files on any file system supported by Microsoft Windows, including network shares, NAS, WebDAV and so on.
- Any other storage media recognized by Microsoft Windows as direct-access media.
Supported Drives
- USB.
- SCSI and iSCSI.
- IEEE-1394 (FireWire).
- ATA (IDE, EIDE), ATAPI, SATA, SATAPI and eSATA.
- Any other storage media drives recognized by Microsoft Windows as fixed or removable drives, including internal and external drives, mobile racks and external enclosures.
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