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Features and BenefitsLiteSpeed for SQL Server | Fast Compression – Significantly reduces storage footprint and backup times and improves database recoverability over existing compressed, full backup solutions using LiteSpeed’s patent-pending Fast Compression technology. LiteSpeed is the only SQL backup solution to offer this capability. | | SmartCleanup – LiteSpeed feature to intelligently remove backups (including transaction-log backups), using a user-defined retention parameters, from disk without disrupting backup set integrity. | | Network Resiliency – LiteSpeed now features built-in network resiliency designed to prevent disk and network issues from disrupting executing backups. LiteSpeed now includes a configurable retry mechanism that detects and recovers from disk and network issues that would normally cause a backup to fail. | | Flexible Compression Technology – LiteSpeed offers 8 levels of compression, including a new maximum compression implementation that significantly reduces backup sizes over previous releases. LiteSpeed compresses data in memory and implements a comprehensive set of compression options to best support each individual environment. Compressing data during the backup process reduces backup file size significantly, saves storage (disk, tape, etc.), and reduces network and disk bandwidth requirements. | | Fast Compression Backups – Reduces storage footprint by up to 40x and decreases backup times significantly from hours to minutes, while allowing users to maintain a high level of recoverability without compromising security. | | Reduce restore times by up to 70% – By compressing, LiteSpeed speeds up backup and restore times considerably. LiteSpeed requires fewer blocks be read from and written to disk, resulting in increased performance and reduced recovery times and downtime to help meet SLAs. | | Object Level Recovery – LiteSpeed allows you to restore individual objects (i.e. tables, stored procedures, views, etc.) allowing you to restore only the objects that are needed and avoid disrupting user access to the database. | | Encryption – LiteSpeed helps secure your data by offering nine levels of encryption, including AES 256-bit. The encryption process has no noticeable impact on backup performance. | | Double Click Restore – LiteSpeed allows you to create a database backup file that can be restored simply by ‘double clicking’ the backup file (launching the LiteSpeed portable executable). This allows the DBA to create portable backup files that can be restored to servers where LiteSpeed is not installed and can further reduce restore times in a disaster recovery scenario. LiteSpeed is the only SQL backup solution to offer this feature. | | Backup Analyzer – Test different LiteSpeed parameters and different backup locations to find the optimal backup settings for your database. The Backup Analyzer also identifies IO problems in the backup environment so they can be easily addressed to improve backup performance. Every environment has different challenges and the Backup Analyzer allows you the power to expand the tuning capabilities with just a few clicks. |
| Log Reader - Allows users to recover data stored in transaction log files by rolling back any operation and reconstructing transactions. | | Configurable to your environment – As well as configuring the levels of compression and encryption, LiteSpeed allows you to set the CPU throttle, processor affinity for each server backup, and how many threads are utilized during the backup process, allowing you to configure the LiteSpeed engine to gain optimal performance. | | Attached File Backup – LiteSpeed offers the Attached File option allowing you to attach documentation to your database archive. This documentation will be restored along with the database as part of the recovery operation. LiteSpeed is the only SQL backup solution to offer this feature. | | LiteSpeed Maintenance Plans - Gives the user the ability to craft maintenance plans with all the options of the native tool plus the power of LiteSpeed regardless of how simple or complex the plans are. | | Database Categorization - Categorize databases any way you want (PROD, DEV, TEST) as well as assign multiple categories (Location, Application) and then choose your desired view. | | Remote Deploy – LiteSpeed offers you the ability to use separate Windows and database administrative accounts when deploying remotely across your environment. | | Centralized Reporting – LiteSpeed provides you with a comprehensive reporting engine allowing you to configure and produce reports in a number of different formats for presentation to management. | | Guided Restore – LiteSpeed will ensure that additional backup files are automatically added to the restore when a transaction log or differential backup is selected using the restore wizard. | | Integrated Log Shipping – LiteSpeed will improve the performance of log shipping by reducing the size of the logs, therefore increasing the speed of the log transfer. LiteSpeed contains its own advanced log shipping functionality for Standard SQL Server users. | | Log Shipping Management - Allows you to easily configure and monitor both LiteSpeed and native log shipping plans. The ability to visually monitor log shipping includes all relevant latency alerting and allows you to easily add and remove subscribers on demand. | | Backup Mirroring - LiteSpeed allows you to write a single backup to multiple locations simultaneously, eliminating the need to make copies individually. | | Cluster Aware – LiteSpeed fully supports clustered environments. | | Backup to disk, tape or Tivoli – LiteSpeed allows you to backup directly to disk, tape or TSM. | | Microsoft Certified – LiteSpeed is a Microsoft certified tool and is used by Microsoft internally (read the case study). | | File Checksum – Verify the backup integrity during a restore from tape to disk. | | |
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