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SearchDataBackup VMware Backup Tutorial by Quantum Corporation
Virtual server backup is a known pain point among backup administrators. In our tutorial, learn all about VMware backup with this collection of articles on VMware backup and restore, VMware Consolidated Backup, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and more. Virtual server backup is a known pain point among backup administrators...
Data Sheet: Backup for Windows Servers by Peer Software
This white paper introduces a new server backup solution that can help meet today's biggest backup and recovery challenges. Designed to allow real-time disk-to-disk backup while keeping management costs low, this technology can both reduce your backup window and ensure your data is secured. Read on to learn more.

As the amount of data...
The Keys to Laptop Backup and Mobile Data Management by Peer Software
between on-site and remote backups, how to configure, deploy and monitor a remote backup solution in real time, and how to ensure efficient and secure data transfer from any location. Read on for more.

As the importance of effective backup and data...
Archiving Storage vs. Data Backup Storage: The Dos and Don'ts of Using Backups and Data Archives by Quantum Corporation
It's important not to confuse data backups with data archives; backups should not be used as archives and archiving products have many features that backups don’t. Read this white paper as W. Curtis Preston examines these differences further and...
E-Guide: Chapter 1: Quick Tutorial For Evaluating Backup Products by Quantum Corporation
This chapter from this SearchDataBackup.com best practices backup guide walks you through the process of evaluating and purchasing backup products. This backup product buying guide lists the criteria involved in selecting backup products for each backup product category and offers product specifications that will help you...
SMB Backup: Choosing the Best Solution by Symantec Corporation
This latest Storage Magazine column by Lauren Whitehouse explores how to choose the best SMB backup solution, products in this space, and why disk backup is a good backup solution for SMBs. Also learn the top 5 tips for virtual server backup.

Small and medium sized businesses basically have the same data backup and recovery needs of...
SearchStorageUK Essential Guide to Backup by SearchStorage.co.UK

Check out this expert E-Guide to discover the current state of backup, and learn about today's newest available data protection, virtualization and backup technologies.

Every IT shop – no matter its size or infrastructure environment -- has to have procedures for handling data storage backup chores. In recent years, new solutions have...
XenServer and XenDesktop Backups: From Agents, to Backup Scripts, to Doing it the Right Way! by PHD Virtual Technologies Inc.
and more.

Having trouble managing backups in your virtual environment?

You're not alone.

Despite the array of benefits promised by emerging virtualization technologies, there are still several looming concerns that must be addressed regarding backup...
ESG Lab validation Report: Cost-effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
enabling faster and more reliable backups at a price comparable to a new tape library. ExaGrid offers the only disk backup appliance with data deduplication purpose.

ExaGrid is a cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solution that replaces tape in your...
7 Steps for Overcoming Limitations of Tape Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the white paper provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication.

This white paper is a 7-step guide for...
Eight Considerations for Evaluating Disk-Based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
backing up to tape, and disk-based backups are more reliable and more secure than tape-based backups. Read on to learn more about the advantages of disk backup today!

The movement from tape-based to disk-based backup is well underway. Disk eliminates all the...
The (Business) Day After: Making a Double Rebound from Disaster by Iron Mountain
ensure you're prepared for the worst.

Backups are one of IT's core operational functions in today's data center. Organizations of all sizes back up systems and content in order to keep business running smoothly in the event of a disaster or unplanned downtime. But...
Build a Better Data and Recovery Backup Plan: The First Five Steps by Iron Mountain
develop and start improving your backups today. Read on for more.

Maintaining regular and effective backups is critical to the survival of today's data center. And as IT becomes more complex, trying to establish a bulletproof backup strategy can be...
University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half by Quantum Corporation
St. Thomas University needed to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance. St. Thomas is an independent Catholic liberal arts university with its main campus in St. Paul, Minnesota. They needed to do something to shorten their backup windows...
How to optimize your backup tape rotation strategy by Quantum Corporation
a tape set. If you do incremental backups on weekdays that only take one tape per backup, then your tape set for those days is one tape.
Quantum DXi6500 Family Improves Backup and Restore Performance, DR and Backup in Virtual Environments by Quantum Corporation
Considering growing data volumes and an increased demand for quicker backup and easy restore, companies continue to look for the “ideal” backup solution. Read this white paper now to learn about the new Quantum DXi6500 family of backup solutions, which offer deduplication, disk-to-disk performance, DR protection, long-term...
Family of Network-Attached Disk Backup Appliances with Deduplication: Quantum DXi6500 by Quantum Corporation
Considering growing data volumes and an increased demand for quicker backup and easy restore, companies continue to look for the “ideal” backup solution. Read this white paper now to learn about the new Quantum DXi6500 family of backup solutions, which offer deduplication, disk-to-disk performance, DR protection, long-term...
Quantum DXi6500 Family of Network-Attached Disk Backup Appliances with Deduplication by Quantum Corporation
Considering growing data volumes and an increased demand for quicker backup and easy restore, companies continue to look for the “ideal” backup solution. Read this white paper now to learn about the new Quantum DXi6500 family of backup solutions, which offer deduplication, disk-to-disk performance, DR protection, long-term retention, and...
Quantum DXi6500 Family of Network-Attached Disk Backup by Quantum Corporation
With the DXi6500, IT departments improve backup and restore performance, enhance overall reliability, improve backup in virtual environments, provide improved DR, reduce management overhead, and lower costs. For many IT departments, traditional backup has not kept up with the need for faster performance and trouble-free restore. Disk...
Data storage backup security tutorial: Tape encryption and cloud backup by Quantum Corporation
Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial. Data storage backups are a...
Data Storage Backup Security tutorial: Tape Encryption and Cloud Backup by Quantum Corporation
Data storage backups are a necessary element of data protection plan, but they're often the biggest source of security woes. Learn everything you need to know about keeping your backups secure in this tutorial. Data storage backups are a...
Cloud, Appliance, or Software? How to Decide Which Backup Solution Is Best for Your Small or Midsize Organization by Symantec Corporation
Companies today can leverage backup and recovery directly from the cloud with an online backup and recovery service. This allows you to replace expensive upfront investments in backup hardware, software, and personnel with an affordable monthly or yearly subscription-based service. Check out this brief white paper to learn more.

As...
When Good Backups Go Bad: Data Recovery Failures and What to Do About Them by Symantec Corporation
common pitfalls associated with backups and how to avoid them. You'll learn about the repercussions of poor/failed backups, and learn how to establish a backup strategy that can ensure minimal downtime during a disaster. Read on to learn more.

As data growth...
Experience a Smooth and Swift Backup Optimized for your Database by Oracle Corporation
This paper describes the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Secure Backup. The solution includes optimized architectures for deploying Oracle Secure Backup software to provide data protection for Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata, SPARC SuperCluster, and Oracle Optimized Solutions.

Virtually every...
5 Misperceptions of Agentless VMware Backup by Dell AppAssure
notoriety applied to agent-based backups. As the blame was placed on agents for glitchy and inefficient software apps, widespread anti-agent sentiment proliferated the VM backup environment, leading many vendors - and as a result, customers - to forsake their...
Virtual Backup: Twice as Easy, with Half the Overhead by Acronis
from Taneja Group explains why VM backups are critical and shares their test results of Acronis vmProtect 7.

It is imperative that companies deploying any type of server virtualization also adopt a virtual machine (VM) backup, because traditional backup is...
Pros and Cons of Using Image-Based Backups with Virtual Servers by Acronis
are of adopting image‐based backups.

In this white paper, discover how you can leverage the benefits of image‐based backup solutions for your virtual infrastructure. Explore the various backup technologies for both physical and virtual servers to...
Better Backup for Budgets by CA ARCserve
Check out this expert E-Gudie to explore cutting edge backup methods to combat data growth, and how to significantly reduce your backup window without spending a dime.

One of the biggest problems plaguing backup admins today is that the volume of data that must be backed up each night is steadily increasing. And to create more of a...
Related Best Practices
Long-term data archiving strategies
often ask when getting started with long-term data archiving is: "What's the difference between backups and archives?" In this podcast, learn about why you shouldn't use your backups as archives, the differences between data backup and data archiving products, and the dos and don'ts associated with each technology. Click here to listen to our podcast on data archiving... More...
How to implement snapshots
the snapshot once it's stored.

Employ security features to manage recoverability

Traditional backups are usually not recoverable by everyday users, but snapshots can often allow end users to recover the most recent copies of their files without the direct intervention of a storage administrator. While this provides convenience, it also presents a security risk... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
might otherwise be required.

Avoid the use of compression or backup sets

When dealing with D2D backups, it's often a preferred practice to backup in native file system formats and avoid the use of vendor-specific backup save sets or compression-centric formats like .zip or .tar. This may demand additional disk space, but eliminates the need for backup or compression... More...

FAQ's
Global deduplication can simplify administration of multiple deduplication devices
a device that doesn't have global deduplication, by splitting up your backups. Let's say you've got four deduplication appliances. And you point your Exchange backups to one of them, your Oracle to another, your file systems to another, etc. That works, and it does help to maximize your deduplication ratio, but the... More...
We're hearing a lot about forward-referencing deduplication and backward-referencing deduplication. Can you talk about what that means exactly?
that environment made up of pointers that really go back to the older backups, maybe even back to the original pull if you have a full and incremental-forever approach.

Your newest backup as a result is really going to have a lot of pointers back to older data. So when you "redupe" the data back to its original... More...

Addressing challenges associated with Linux backup
backup FAQ

What are the common pitfalls people run into when performing backups in a Linux environment?

Some of the biggest pitfalls people run into with Linux backup have to do with compatibility. For example, I've seen people buy an elaborate tape library, and there aren't any Linux drivers available. I've also... More...