Pervasive Backup Agent Product Information
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The Pervasive Backup Agent has finally arrived! This long-awaited tool provides you, the overworked application coordinator or database administrator, the ability to quickly enable the Continuous Operations mode on a database, ensuring easy, clean backups -- every time!

Already using Continuous Operations mode for backups? Keep right on using this free feature of the database! However, if you have never checked out this great capabilitity to get clean backups within a 24x7 environment (or even mid-day backups), then you need to do check out our white paper on the topic for more detailed information.

Having done that, you'll now know the secret to clean backups without needing to kick users off the system. However, if you have had difficulty in creating or maintaining the list of files needed for Continuous Operations mode to work correctly, or if your database creates new files all the time that need to be properly backed up, or if you simply don't have the time nor interest in setting up and managiong the Continuous Operations mode manually, then the new Backup Agent is for you!

The Pervasive Backup Agent hooks into your Pervasive database engine running on Windows or Linux (sorry, folks, no NetWare support yet) and locates the open files for you -- automatically. It also continuously monitors the database, watching for new files being opened. As the new files are opened, they are automatically placed into continuous operations mode. This ensures that ALL files from EVERY database can be captured with the exact same point-in-time snapshot!

With a list price of only $249 (our Goldstar Price is $210), this product is a great bargain, and it has been an instant hit with sites of all sizes. With the safety of proper backups behind you, you'll be able to concentrate on more important issues -- like sleep, family, etc.!

The current versions of Backup Agent are v1.0, v1.1, v1.2, and v2.0:

• Backup Agent v1.0 is supported on Pervasive.SQL V8 Windows Server database engines only. Workgroup Engines are NOT supported at this time. If you have Pervasive.SQL V8, you can NOT upgrade to v1.1 at this time -- you must upgrade to PSQLv9 first. This release will become completely unsupported as of December 31, 2006.
• Backup Agent v1.1 is supported on Pervasive PSQL v9 server database engines only, but there is a version for Windows Servers AND one for Linux servers. (There is no Backup Agent for NetWare.)
• Backup Agent v1.2 is supported on Pervasive PSQL v10.0, but ONLY as an upgrade from a PSQLv9 installation. (Backup Agent v2.0 for new PSQLv10 installations is expected to be released with Service Pack 1.) This product currently works with 32-bit versions of PSQLv10.00 only. This version will NOT work on PSQLv10.10.
• Backup Agent v2.0 was released in August 2008 and will work ONLY on Pervasive PSQL Summit v10.10. (It will NOT work on v10.00). There are 4 different versions, for Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Linux 32-bit, and Linux 64-bit environments, so be sure to get the right version! If you use the Pervasive PSQLv10.10 Workgroup Engine, you can now use Backup Agent as well! Get the Win32 version for use with the Workgroup Engine.

Users of Backup Agent v1.x can freely migrate to a newer version as you upgrade your database engine. However, if you upgrade to PSQLv10.10 or higher, you will be required to get the Backup Agent v2.0 product, which is a PAID upgrade. See the pricing link below for details.

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