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CA ARCserve is a proprietary backup software product currently developed by CA Technologies. ARCserve has a long history, and was originally released by Cheyenne Software in 1990. Today, the CA ARCserve family of products is one of the largest independent software vendor (ISV) developed backup software products in the market, and is made up of ARCserve Backup, ARCserve D2D, ARCserve Replication and ARCserve High Availability products. The product family currently supports a wide variety of platforms and applications, with support for advanced features such as Bare Metal Recovery (BMR) to dissimilar Hardware, Cross platform SAN Support for Windows/Linux/UNIX servers, Data Deduplication, Virtual Server support, server mirroring and automatic failover for protection of remote branch offices through WAN Optimized Replication and provides a Visual diagram of the backup infrastructure in addition to extensive data reporting.

History
ARCserve was first developed and released by Cheyenne Software Inc in February 1990 as a product used to back up other software programs and to ensure that data in the network could not be lost. The major function of the first release was to automatically copy all the information in the system so that mishaps such as power failures and equipment malfunctions would not destroy or erase it. During the early nineties, ARCserve became Cheyenne's flagship product with massive growth in sales. Cheyenne brought out an improved version of its core program ARCserve in 1993 and began distribution through Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM). During the mid-nineties, Cheyenne continued to release a series of new ARCserve products tailored specifically for different market segments such as Macintosh and Windows users. Software vendor CA Technologies, which was then known as Computer Associates, acquired Cheyenne in 1996 and continued to develop and market the ARCserve product under the same brand.

ARCserve 1.0
ARCserve 1.0 was released in February 1990 to back up network data to optical drives.

ARCserve 2.0
ARCserve 2.0 ran only under NetWare 2x, Novell’s VAP OS. But Novell's VAP Operating system was quickly replaced by an NLM based Operating system. The whole product fit on a single 1.2 mb diskette.

ARCserve 3.0
ARCserve 3.0 was released in 1991 as NLM only and came on two 1.2mb diskettes.

ARCserve 3.0b
ARCserve 3.0b was an update over the previous version ARCserve 3.0

ARCserve Windows 1.0
ARCserve Windows 1.0 was the first version of ARCserve that was released for the Windows Operating System platform. It worked on Windows NT 3.5 and later on Windows NT 3.51

ARCserve Backup r11.1
ARCserve Backup r11.1 came in four packages based on the Operating System on which the ARCserve Backup Server was to be installed.
 * ARCserve backup r11.1 for Linux
 * ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Windows
 * ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Unix
 * ARCserve Backup r11.1 for Netware

ARCserve Backup r11.5
ARCserve Backup r11.5 came in three separate packages based on the Operating Systems on which the ARCserve Backup Server was to be installed.
 * ARCserve Backup r11.5 for Windows
 * ARCserve Backup r11.5 for Linux
 * ARCserve Backup r11.5 for Unix

ARCserve Backup r12
ARCserve Backup r12 introduced support for VMware Virtualization technology.

ARCserve Backup r12.5
ARCserve Backup r12.5 was a release that enhanced the Virtualization capabilities of the product and introduced Deduplication as a part of the base product.

New Features in ARCserve Backup r12.5:
 * Integrated Data Deduplication
 * File Level Restores from Raw/Image Based Backups of Virtual Machines
 * Dashboard with SRM Reporting
 * Access Control and Auditing
 * Encryption Key Management
 * Media Assure Technology
 * Oracle RMAN and 64-bit platform support
 * Agent Deployment Packages

ARCserve r15 (2010)
The ARCserve r15 release provided a varied range of enhancements to the existing ARCserve and XOsoft (renamed ARCserve Replication and High Availability r15) products and launches a new disk-based backup product called CA ARCserve D2D. The products are also repackaged into the ARCserve family of products providing better integration among existing products and with the new CA ARCserve D2D product. With the current release CA ARCserve Backup r15 integrates with CA ARCserve D2D r15, CA ARCserve Replication r15 and CA ARCserve High Availability r15 (previously known as CA XOsoft Replication and High Availability) to incorporate enhanced disk based capabilities and protection for data in remote branch offices within ARCserve.

The ARCserve r15 Family consists of the following products:
 * ARCserve Backup r15
 * ARCserve D2D r15
 * ARCserve Replication r15
 * ARCserve High Availability r15

ARCserve Backup r15
This is the current version of the flagship ARCserve Backup product. With this release, CA addresses the cross platform SAN environments present within its customer base, thereby also providing a migration path for customers with UNIX and Linux based environment towards a Windows backup server. Also, the Infrastructure Visualization feature that is added provides a visual representaion of the entire backup environment. This coupled with enhancements in the Backup and SRM (Storage Resource Management) Reports in the ARCserve Dashboard makes for strong reporting capabilities.

Supported Platforms
Operating systems:
 * Windows Server 2008 R2
 * Windows Server 2008 SP1, SP2
 * Windows Server 2008 Foundation
 * Windows Essential Business Server 2008
 * Windows Small Business Server 2008
 * Windows Storage Server 2008
 * Windows Server 2003

The CA ARCserve Backup r15 Base is not supported on the following Operating Systems, however the Manager Console, Client Agent for Windows, Agent for Virtual Machines and Open File Agent are Supported:
 * Windows Vista (x86 and x64) SP1 or SP2
 * Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate and Enterprise Editions (x86 and x64)

ARCserve D2D r15
CA ARCserve D2D r15 is an exclusive disk based backup product introduced into the CA ARCserve family of products as a part of the ARCserve r15 release. It takes a single full backup of the machine or a volume and subsequently only does Incremental backups indefinitely. This is done using CA's patented I^2(Infinite Incrementals) Technology which allows Block Level Infinite Incremental Backups after an initial single full backup. It thereafter provides a consolidated point in time view of the protected volume to enable multiple recovery points. ARCserve D2D allows application consistent snapshot backups and simplifies Disaster Recovery by allowing Bare Metal Recovery to dissimilar hardware.

Supported Platforms
Operating Systems:


 * Windows 2003(32 bit and 64 bit)
 * Windows 2008(32 bit and 64 bit)
 * VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix Virtualization platforms

Applications:
 * Microsoft Exchange(2003, 2007 and 2010)
 * Microsoft SQL Server (2005, 2008)
 * Sharepoint (2007, 2010)

CA ARCserve Replication r15.2
CA ARCserve Replication r15 was known as CA XOsoft in its previous release. ARCserve Replication r15 does asynchronous real time replication of file and application data. The software is a Host based replication tool that is optimized for WAN links. The production server being protected is called the Master Server in CA ARCserve Replication terminology. The mirrored server at the disaster recovery site on a WAN or LAN is called the Replica Server. The Replica is a stand-by server that can be configured to service user requests through a manual failover.

Supported Platforms
Operating Systems:


 * Windows Server 2003
 * Windows Server 2003 R2
 * Windows Server 2008
 * Windows Server 2008 R2
 * Microsoft Virtual PC
 * Microsoft Virtual Server
 * Microsoft Hyper-V Server
 * VMware Virtualization
 * Citrix XenServer
 * Microsoft Small Business Server 2003
 * Microsoft Small Business Server 2008

CA ARCserve High Availability r15.2
CA ARCserve High Availability r15 was known as CA XOsoft High Availability until its previous release. The product includes CA ARCserve Replication r15 and uses the same installed components (control server & engines), while the license key sets the different functionality between the two. High Availability serves to eliminate downtime that users experience by redirecting requests to a Replica Server when the Master Server is unavailable to service the request. The users typically are not affected and do not realize that a redirection took place. Failover and failback can be automated using ARCserve High Availability r15.2

Supported Platforms
Operating Systems:


 * Windows Server 2003
 * Windows Server 2003 R2
 * Windows Server 2008
 * Windows Server 2008 R2
 * Microsoft Virtual PC
 * Microsoft Virtual Server
 * Microsoft Hyper-V Server
 * VMware Virtualization
 * Citrix XenServer

CA ARCserve® r16.0 (2011)
The CA ARCserve r16 release provides a varied range of enhancements to the existing ARCserve Backup, ARCserve Replication and High Availability, and ARCserve D2D products and introduced the CA ARCserve Central Applications. With the current release CA ARCserve Backup r16 integrates with CA ARCserve D2D r16, and CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16 to incorporate enhanced disk based capabilities and protection for data in remote branch offices within ARCserve. The ARCserve r16 family consists of the following products:
 * CA ARCserve® Backup r16
 * CA ARCserve® D2D r16
 * CA ARCserve® Central Applications r16
 * CA ARCserve® Replication and High Availability r16

CA ARCserve Backup r16
With this release, CA ARCServe Backup archives data using the new Archive Manager. Full and incremental backup sessions can be synthesized into one session. This capability eliminates the need to recover data to a specific point in time, results in less downtime, and helps you recover data faster. This release integrates with cloud-based storage. ARCserve Backup provides a simple interface as part of the user interface to set up cloud storage as a secondary site for CA ARCserve Backup storage. This release also includes enhanced integration with CA ARCserve D2D. This capability lets users clone D2D backup sessions to tape media, catalog with CA ARCserve Backup and enable recovery via the CA ARCserve Backup console to provide long-term, off-site storage for CA ARCserve D2D backups and a single point of management. CA ARCserve Backup r16 also uses WinPE to drive the bare-metal restore process, including support for iSCSI disks, the Windows Server 2008 cluster and x86, x64, and IA64 platforms.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Backup r16 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve D2D r16
CA ARCserve D2D r16 is an exclusive disk based backup product and supports the following capabilities:
 * Granular restore of Exchange Objects
 * Explorer Integrationfor directly browsing and restoring files/folder and Exchange objects (mailboxes, mail folders, mail) from Windows Explorer
 * Copy Recovery Points
 * Backup speed throttling
 * Enhanced alert notifications
 * Encryption and decryptionFile copy operations

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve D2D r16 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve Central Applications r16
CA ARCserve Central Applications was introduced into the CA ARCserve family of products as a part of the ARCserve r16 release. CA ARCserve Central Applications provides a collection of common look and feel web applications built to extend the functionality of CA ARCserve D2D.
 * CA ARCserve® Central Protection Manager: Provides central management of CA ARCserve D2D servers, including discovery, backup policy and restore from one interface.
 * CA ARCserve® Central Reporting: Leverages the Protection Manager Microsoft SQL repository to report on CA ARCserve D2D as well as information collected from CA ARCserve Backup dashboards.
 * CA ARCserve® Central Host-Based VM Backup: Extends both VMware and CA ARCserve D2D by executing backups of virtual machines running on ESX, by a single installation of CA ARCserve D2D, creating a standard D2D recovery point.
 * CA ARCserve® Central Virtual Standby: Converts D2D backup repository data, by host, to either VMware or Hyper-V virtual machines that can are ready to stand up, versus running BMR or Recover VM.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Central Applications r16 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16
In previous releases, CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability was known as CA XOsoft, CA Replication, and CA High Availability. CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16 includes a wide range of enhancements that expand the breadth of protection, simplify management and speed recovery of systems, applications and data. Some of the key features include: Supported Platforms[12] For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16 Compatibility Matrix.
 * Full System Replication and High Availability: Replicates a complete Windows-based system including the operating system, system state, application and data to an offline Replica server running VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper -V Server or Citrix XenServer. Includes server and application monitoring with automated and push-button failover that automatically stands up the Replica server for high availability.
 * Amazon Cloud (Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)) Integration: Enables the use of Amazon’s data center and resources for the Replica server to replace capital expenditure (CAPEX) with operational expenditure (OPEX) while benefiting from using a remote site with a defined service-level agreement (SLA) for disaster recovery (DR). Our unique high availability solution helps reduce cloud costs as you only pay for server processing when you failover. Supports Windows Server 2003 32/64-bit and Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit.
 * Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster Support: Complements a Windows Server failover cluster with data replication to any local or remote site, regardless of distance, for DR. Provides the data-mover capability for remote replication and helps to eliminate storage as a single point of failure. Integration with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager makes management faster and easier.
 * Secure Communication: Provides 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption across the network without the need for a virtual private network (VPN) or IPSec tunnel.
 * VMware vCenter Server v4 Support: Provides replication and failover for the VMware management system.

CA ARCserve® r16.5 (2013)
The CA ARCserve r16.5 release provides a varied range of enhancements to the existing ARCserve Backup, ARCserve Replication and High Availability, ARCserve D2D, and ARCserve Central Applications products. The products are also repackaged into the ARCserve family of products providing better integration among existing products and with the new CA ARCserve D2D product. With the current release CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 integrates with CA ARCserve D2D r16.5, CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16.5, and CA ARCserve Central Applications to incorporate enhanced disk based capabilities and protection for data in remote branch offices within ARCserve.[9] The ARCserve r16.5 Family consists of the following products:
 * ARCserve® Backup r16.5
 * ARCserve® D2D r16.5
 * ARCserve® Replication and High Availability r16.5
 * ARCserve® Central Applications r16.5

CA ARCserve Backup r16.5
CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 now enables protection of the latest Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 workstation environments as part of file-based backup and disaster recovery goals.
 * Enables taking full advantage of enhanced data integrity, availability, and scalability offered by Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) and achieve comprehensive data protection.
 * Supports Hyper-V v3.0 (run at the hypervisor level for single-pass backup of all Hyper-V virtual machines).
 * Protects NTFS Deduplicated primary volumes using either optimized or non-optimized backup methods and still achieve granular file-level recovery. Migration to cloud is also supported.
 * Takes advantage of more flexible and resilient storage virtualization capabilities with Windows Storage Space knowing your data is protected.
 * Protects remote volumes with distributed VSS support. Provides application-consistent backups of applications that store files on UNC paths.
 * New application support includes: application-consistent full/differential/incremental backup and restore of Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013. Exchange 2013 database recovery is supported but granular restore of mailboxes, emails and attachments is planned for a future release. SharePoint support includes granular restore of databases and objects.
 * Stores large files on storage devices efficiently using 4KB sectors while achieving comprehensive data protection.
 * Supports use of LTO6 devices that support faster drives to speed backup and recovery
 * Leverages the flexibility and cost-savings public cloud providers with expanded cloud support for backup migration to Microsoft Windows Azure, Fujitsu Global Cloud and Eucalyptus 3.0 and 3.1 based clouds. Amazon Web Services (S3) continues to be supported.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Backup r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve D2D r16.5
CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 now protects Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 workstation environments.
 * Takes full advantage of enhanced data integrity, availability, and scalability offered by Windows Resilient File System (ReFS) and achieves comprehensive data protection.
 * Supports Hyper-V v3.0. Hypervisor level protection for single-pass backup of all Hyper-V virtual machines.
 * Protects NTFS Deduplicated primary volumes using either optimized or non-optimized backup methods and still achieves granular file-level recovery.
 * Takes advantage of more flexible and resilient storage virtualization capabilities with Windows Storage Spaces knowing your data is protected.
 * Performs Application-consistent backup and restore of Exchange 2013 databases.
 * Provides more flexibility when restoring data with uEFI-BIOS interchange. Go from uEFI to BIOS and conversely. This capability is useful when performing Bare Metal Recovery (BMR).
 * Reduces backup time with catalog-less backup. For faster search and recovery, you can run ad-hoc catalog creation jobs at any time.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve D2D r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16.5
CA ARCserve Replication and High Availabilty now replicates backups offsite, provides continuous data protection and high availability of Windows Server 2012 environments. This capability includes support for Linux and UNIX platforms.: Other non-Windows enhancements include the following:
 * Supports Hyper-V 3.0.
 * Enables High Availability where you configure failover scenarios that can cascade to more than one replica server. For improved disaster recovery, integration with CA ARCserve Central Host-based VM Backup enables replication of host-level backups (all virtual machines) to remote sites.
 * Improved SQL Server protection with SQL Server Filestreams support where all BLOB data is automatically discovered and replicated.
 * Leverages the flexibility and cost-savings a public cloud provides with expanded replication and high availability integration with Amazon Web Services EC2 in Japan.
 * Improved Linux protection with Linux Global Mount to be able to support multiple file systems under the same directory and support overlapped root directories in replication and HA scenarios.
 * Enhanced Oracle system and data protection includes Multiple Instance Support that enables replication and HA scenarios for multiple Oracle systems installed on a single Windows Server using auto discovery for easy deployment.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Replication and High Availability r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.

CA ARCserve Central Applications r16.5
CA ARCserve Central Applications r16.5 lets you protect Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 workstation environments. CA ARCserve Central Applications include the following centralized management applications:
 * CA ARCserve Central Protection Manager and CA ARCserve Central Reporting can be used to deploy, manage and report on CA ARCserve D2D in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 environments.
 * CA ARCserve Central Virtual Standby supports “remote standby” across a Wide Area Network through integration with CA ARCserve Replication. Customers and Partners like MSPs can now replicate CA ARCserve D2D recovery points to a remote site and then automatically convert the recovery points to VM format and quickly stand them up after a production server failure for fast system recovery. This application also now supports failover of Hyper-V v3.0 virtual machines. Remote Virtual Standby does not offer the heartbeat monitoring and automated failover options that are available when deploying Central Virtual Standby locally.

Supported Platforms
For a complete list of supported platforms, see the CA ARCserve Central Applications r16.5 Compatibility Matrix.