Proactive archiving... an advanced disk based backup volume management system with triple redundancy for HE and SME. A quick and low-cost way to make an environment more robust and data more accessible by archiving in multiple places. This replication also provides fast retrieval of archived data from all node hosting locations. A Perl installer creates the system. The application provides a decentralised, self-contained and managed storage utility.

Nodes can be dedicated to storage or used for existing services over unused bandwidth. DIASER® works in user space over SSH. The software is based on DIAP® which is a storage architecture designed to structure months to years of long term sustainable archiving space including retrospective archiving.

The application is beta-1. Please download to evaluate and trial the software, currently being tested with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora 12. I aim to test with other Linux distributions as well as ActivePerl, freeBSD and MacOSX.

View a short flash installation demo here.

See an example installation in pictures, click image...

Read the latest development roadmap here.

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Funding period between April 09 and September 09 - DIASER is now funded and supported by the encasing company Interlinux Ltd in accordance to a licence agreement agreement between the University of Southampton and Interlinux Ltd.

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