Microsoft to beta backup software

Microsoft is expected to announce Wednesday at Storage Networking World that its disk-based backup and instant recovery product will be entering beta tests.

Introduced last September as Data Protection Server, the now renamed System Center Data Protection Manager will allow IT administrators to continuously back up the Windows NT file system and recover data from any point in time. The product will back up as many as eight servers. In the future it will be able to back up Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server implementations.

System Center Data Protection Manager works with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Storage Server 2003. Users of Dell, EMC or HP network-attached storage appliances that use Windows Storage Server 2003 will also be able to use the product. It will also integrate with Microsoft’s System Center software.

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Microsoft is expected to announce Wednesday at Storage Networking World that its disk-based backup and instant recovery product will be entering beta tests.

Introduced last September as Data Protection Server, the now renamed System Center Data Protection Manager will allow IT administrators to continuously back up the Windows NT file system and recover data from any point in time. The product will back up as many as eight servers. In the future it will be able to back up Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server implementations.

System Center Data Protection Manager works with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Storage Server 2003. Users of Dell, EMC or HP network-attached storage appliances that use Windows Storage Server 2003 will also be able to use the product. It will also integrate with Microsoft’s System Center software.

IT administrators that download the beta software will be able to upgrade to the release-to-manufacturing product when it ships. The beta software can be downloaded here.

System Center Data Protection Manager, which is still not priced, is expected to ship in the third quarter of this year.