SEP AG the technology leader for backup and data recovery continues its mission to provide important and useful source code to the Open Source Community. The release of code, begun last year, continues with the delivery of the fundamental basis of SEP sesam and is now available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Users now have the added security that they will always have access to their valuable information.
2/24/10 - SEP is delivering the “Motor” of its Backup and Recovery software, SEP sesam. Thus providing the most powerful backup solution available today without cost, including the valued multi-streaming, multiplexing technology (SMS) to the GPL libraries. SMS along with the SEP Transfer Protocol for Data (STPD) controls the entire flow of data from the SEP client (already available under GPL) assuring rapid, accurate and reliable transfer to the backup medium (disk or tape, SAN, etc.). This important release allows the open source community direct access to critical algorithms and methodology used to store data. Data thus recorded can be converted to source code and be backed up to media for eventual archiving. Further information and the source code for the referenced SEP components can be found at: http://wiki.sepsoftware.com/wiki/index.php/SEP_Open_Source_Module_en
“The law in Europe stipulates that all businesses and institutions have the ability, without a third-party, to recover and read their data,” stated Georg Moosreiner, Chairman of SEP AG. “That is why we are providing the open source community with the source code for our Server/Master Server modules. Basically, the STPD is the brain of the software. Our users now have the added security that their backed up data will always be usable.” Moosreiner continued.
Further, SEP is releasing the API and command line interface to the community. These tools enable the direct access to the STPD server and permit users to develop their own management tools and create their own unique backup environment.
“By opening the source code SEP fulfills the decisive requirement for the integration into the Open Source Solution Stack from the Linux Solutions Group e.V. (LiSoG),” reported Thomas Uhl, Director for LiSoG. “For the first time users have a guaranteed method to develop a robust and complete Enterprise Backup/Recovery solution. This software source code now escrowed for everyone to use, is a huge step toward insuring data availability and integrity for the entire community,” Uhl emphasized.
The sales and license model from SEP will not change with this release of the SMS and STPD technologies. The Windows client, GUI and modules used for databases and groupware applications remain under copyright with SEP AG.