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Introduction to the Enterprise Module

CA ARCserve Backup is a distributed comprehensive storage solution for application, databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides backup and restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, and network clients.

The CA ARCserve Backup Enterprise Module (Enterprise Module) is a separately-installed component that includes the following options and features:

• Multistreaming: two or more streams of backup data.
• Disk staging backups and tape staging backups with multistreaming and transmit three to 32 streams of backup data.

  Note: If you do not license the Enterprise Module, CA ARCserve Backup lets you transmit two streams of backup data for disk staging and tape staging backup jobs, and one stream for custom backup jobs. A "custom" job is a job that does not utilize a rotation schedule, a grandfather-father-son (GFS) rotation, or media pools. For more information, see the Administration Guide.

• Media Management Option.
• Raw backup and restore of physical disks and volumes.
• Enterprise Option for VSS Hardware Snap-Shot.
• Enterprise Option for IBM 3494.
• Enterprise Option for StorageTek ACSLS.
• Image Option.

Note: The license for the Enterprise Module is registered on the primary or the stand-alone CA ARCserve Backup server.