US-based Enhanced Software Technologies (EST) has released its Crash Recovery Utility (CRU) for Linux for public consumption. It was released under the QPL open-source licence and is an EST initiative that has benefited from the support of Linux developers around the world.
"CRU is truly an example of an open source project working at its best," says Tim Jones, vice president of development at EST. "We coded CRU`s base architecture, put it out there, and in true form the folks committed to the open source movement applied their collective horsepower. The result is an easy to use, yet powerful disaster recovery solution."
CRU for Linux eliminates the hurdles associated with the recovery of a Linux system following a catastrophic outage. Traditionally, recovery meant manually reloading the operating system and reconfiguring device drivers, restoring the remaining system data and crossing one`s fingers.
A user or administrator no longer needs to remember system configurations and settings. By using CRU for Linux, in conjunction with their Backup & Restore Utility (BRU) tapes, the process of restoring a system is automated, virtually eliminating human error in the process. Information about CRU can be found at: http://cru.estinc.com, a Web site EST maintains.
"BRU was the first commercial backup solution for Linux and we`ve been most fortunate in the way our products have been embraced," said Ted Cook, president and CEO of EST. "We continually look for ways to give back to the Linux community and contributing technical content for the advancement of Linux as well as the open source software movement is part of our business activity.
In addition to the CRU project, our engineers have donated expertise to enhance the operability of tape devices under Linux as well as many other open source projects," Cook says.
CRU can be downloaded from http://cru.estinc.com and is included with BRU Backup & Restore for Linux software.
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