[Microlite Corporation] For Immediate Release Contact: Megan Finnerty megan@microlite.com Director of Marketing (724) 375-6711 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microlite Announces UnixWare 7 Crash Recovery Solution SANTA CRUZ CA - SCO Forum1999 - August 16, 1999 Microlite Corporation today announced RecoverEDGE for UnixWare 7, the first fully integrated, configurable crash recovery solution for the SCO UnixWare 7 operating system. RecoverEDGE works along with the award winning BackupEDGE Data Archiving System to provide three major benefits to UnixWare 7 users and administrators: o Crash Recovery - downed systems can be restored to service in three simple steps: 1 Solve the problem that caused the crash. 2 Boot the RecoverEDGE diskettes or CD-ROM and reconfigure filesystems. 3 Restore all the data from a BackupEDGE backup. o System Reconfiguration - RecoverEDGE allows the user to replace hard drives if you’ve outgrown your old ones, resize filesystems to reallocate space, or even replace host adapters quickly and easily. o Disk Optimization - RecoverEDGE makes it easy to erase fragmented data and restore files in a contiguous, optimally accessible manner. "Clients have told us repeatedly over the years that effective crash recovery is essential in the maintenance and support of mission critical systems." said Frank Liberato, Vice President of Software Engineering at Microlite Corporation. "RecoverEDGE places this indispensable capability in the hands of UnixWare 7 VARs, OEMs and system administrators for the first time." Major Features - RecoverEDGE: o No "image" backups required. Crash Recovery is performed using live system backups. o Full, friendly user interface - no shell prompts required. o System discovery process creates a custom kernel and detects required libraries. o Recognizes, configures and recovers all disk devices on all host adapters. o Enhanced partition interface allows easy drive configuration without being an expert at manipulating FDISK tables and UnixWare slices. o Filesystems may be switched between hard drives easily. System files such as /etc/vfstab and /etc/swaptab are adjusted as necessary by RecoverEDGE. o "One Touch Restore" rebuilds a system on same-sized or larger hard drives with minimum user intervention. Partitions will be scaled to fit the new drive automatically. o Tape drives may be on the local system or installed anywhere on the network. o Remote administrators can telnet or modem into the crash recovery media and take over a disaster recovery session from anywhere in the world. o Users may make Crash Recovery Diskettes, or with a CD-R drive create a Crash Recovery CD-ROM. o Support for Hewlett Packard One Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) compatible tape drives is expected before the end of 1999. Major Features - BackupEDGE: o Reliable, high performance backups using multiple data buffers. o Full bit-level data verification. o Graphical point & click fast file restore. o Supports hardware or software data compression as required. o Low level SCSI tape support. o Tape auto changer support. o Available on most major versions of the Unix operating system. Pricing and Availability RecoverEDGE for UnixWare 7 comes free with each copy of Microlite BackupEDGE for UnixWare 7. Microlite BackupEDGE for UnixWare 7 retails for US$300 in the United States and Canada. Beta / evaluation copies of RecoverEDGE for UnixWare 7, along with a full demo copy of Microlite BackupEDGE for UnixWare 7, are available on the Microlite Corporation web site today, with first customer shipments expected in October 1999. About Microlite Corporation: Microlite Corporation has been serving the Unix community since 1983, and has been in the backup software business since 1987. Microlite Corporation may be reached at (724) 375-6711. BackupEDGE and RecoverEDGE are trademarks of Microlite Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective owners.