The next training class for FDR/UPSTREAM, FDRSOS & UPSTREAM/SOS is scheduled for January 22-24, 2002. This will be a three-day course for both new and established users of Innovation Data Processing's FDR/UPSTREAM, FDRSOS and UPSTREAM/SOS.
Registration: You may register by phone by calling Innovation Data Processing at 973-890-7300, fax to 973-890-7147 or email to sales@fdrinnovation.com.

The current production level of FDR/UPSTREAM and UPSTREAM/SOS is 3.1.5, and includes the client release, FDR/UPSTREAM OS390, OS390 UNIX and S390 Linux releases and are all now available.

New features in the FDR/UPSTREAM family of products

FDR/UPSTREAM powerful management facilities are now available to manage the next generation operating system, Windows XP

FDR/UPSTREAM now supports Microsoft’s latest powerful operating system XP!  UPSTREAM provides extensive support for all the features that are included for Windows 2000 and are also included for XP including Active Directory, System State and:

• Long file and directory names

• File and Directory Access Control Lists (ACLs)

• Alternate data streams for files

• The Windows Registry

• Windows System State

• The Windows NT Event Logs

• NTFS Specific features

New Multi-Processing UPSTREAM

Upstream just got much FASTER!!! UPSTREAM is now capable of providing significant performance improvements with its new multi processing capability! UPSTREAM will automatically perform multi-processing for both OS/390 host and client initiated requests. Now Windows and UNIX versions of UPSTREAM will automatically handle as many OS/390 MVS host, Director or local client requests as you wish to submit. This feature requires no special setup!

When you install or upgrade your UPSTREAM daemon or service, UPSTREAM will operate as usual waiting for remote requests. This copy of UPSTREAM will be the instance that will listen on the inbound IP port and will run until it is killed. However, if a remote request is received, a new copy of UPSTREAM will automatically be started to service this request. Each of these child copies will terminate when the given request has completed. For example, if you wish to backup the C:, D: and E: drives simultaneously to separate backup profiles, simply submit all three jobs at one time.

FDR/UPSTREAM has the capability of backing up and restoring the entire System State of a Windows 2000 and XP computer. The System State consists of the core set of files and database data which must be backed up as a whole to ensure that a consistent snap-shot of the system is captured. The System State, as defined by Microsoft, consists of:

• Boot and system files. These are the files in the root of the boot drive (what Microsoft calls the system drive), all of the files in the new System Protected Files list and a few others.

• The registry.

• The COM+ Class registration database.

• The SysVol.

• The Active Directory database (for Domain Controllers only).

• The Certificate Server database (only if the computer is a Certificate Server).

• The Cluster database (only if the computer is a member node of a cluster).

FDR/UPSTREAM introduces a new feature called the SysState PlugIn (SysState.dll), to deal with all of these components as a whole (the System State). The SysState PlugIn works in conjunction with another FDR/UPSTREAM component called the FDR/UPSTREAM Windows 2000 Agent service (USW2KAgt.exe) that makes it much easier to work with and manage.

Some of the components of the Windows 2000 System State are always backed up fully regardless of the UPSTREAM backup type selected when you specify the System State PlugIn. Even when you specify that the backup should be incremental (backup type Incremental merge, MERGE=2), the following components are backed up fully, as Microsoft has not defined incremental backups for these objects:

• The registry.

• The COM+ Class registration database.

• The Active Directory database.

• The Certificate Server database.

• The Cluster database.

The System State PlugIn is a single collection of all the items in the system state! These items were collected separately in earlier versions of UPSTEAM. Your existing backup specifications will still work, however they will not be able to take advantage of the single collection nature of the System State PlugIn.

We recommend that you modify existing backup specifications to include this new feature. Note however, that your first full-merge backup will run longer as the files are renamed to indicate that they are in the “System State”.

Although, the System State components can be restored individually, it is strongly suggested that the entire System State be restored as a whole so as not to break any of the inter-dependencies between the components. This is especially true when performing a disaster recovery restore as this can only be done by restoring the entire system state. System State components should be restored individually only when you are sure of what you are doing.

UPSTREAM allows SysState PlugIn backups and restores to be restarted.

SIMPLIFIED WINDOWS BACKUPS

UPSTREAM now provides a simple and easy to define method for complete Windows system backups! You can now backup all files on all read/write volumes on a given Windows system (including the Windows 2000 System State), with a single file spec: “\\machine name” or even simpler..just  “\\.”  to indicate the current machine. This dramatically simplifies backup specification.

UPSTREAM/SOS

Director based FDRSOS Local Backup Disk Management. FDRSOS Local Backup Disks can now be managed via the UPSTREAM Director. This easy to use, yet full featured Graphical User Interface now provides information for FDRSOS Local Backup disks for all your systems.

The Director was written as a Java application and provides a user friendly "Windows" like graphical user interface that can run on any platform that provides a Java Virtual Machine and TCP/IP support. Using the UPSTREAM Director you can, from a workstation anywhere in your network, specify backups and restores, check the status of running operations, retrieve log files, perform profile configuration and more.

For those who have licensed UPSTREAM/SOS, you can now use the Director interface to manage your special FDRSOS disks. Using the SOS Management panels you can list your physical disks and see which ones are initialized for FDRSOS Local Backup, display all the above information about an SOS Disk, update the profile defaults for undefined (generated from these defaults) backup profiles, display, add, delete and update the parameters of any backup profile, display and delete (without deleting the actual backup in the repository) the backups by profile.

UPSTREAM OS/390 UNIX Backups

UPSTREAM now offers an interface into the UNIX file system that can now hold user’s home directories so that they’ll be available for full system backup by specifying HOLDUSERDIRS Y. This is particularly useful when performing /* backups for OS/390 Unix where user’s file systems are managed in separate HFS file systems and are mounted by the system auto-mounter. This parameter is available on the UNIX Backup/More... dialogs and in the UPSTREAM Director.

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