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Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
unique challenges. How can you back up your large and growing databases within a limited window? How do you recover your environment in under a day? Where do Oracle solutions work well for your business needs and which limitations can be addressed by...
Backing Up VMware Data for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
Watch this videocast for expert tips to improve your DR plan with VMware server virtualization. You'll learn how to replicate and mirror VMware data, gain insight on special storage considerations for VMware DR, and more. You know that a disaster recovery plan is critical to ensuring data protection and high availability, but did you...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. This paper will examine the differences between the first and second generation disk-based backup systems. The question of how to effectively back up data has been...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
dump is a powerful tool to back up Unix files. However, the dump utility isn't intuitive and can produce some unexpected results, especially during a restore. Here's how dump works. Using the dump utility to back up Unix-based files can be a tricky...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
ensure that no data set is too big to back up.

The rapid creation and accumulation of stored data has pushed traditional backup approaches to their breaking point. Large amounts of storage capacity and advances in processing power have led users to believe...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
disk. Many organizations use tape to back up data nightly. Tape is fairly inexpensive and low-tech, but managing and administering tape, backing up to tape and restoring files from it can be time consuming, unreliable and complex. Disk has always been an...
ComputerLab Solutions: Grab and graph your computer lab usage stats! by Computer Lab Solutions
need it most. ▪ Make Money Back up your funding requests with the hard numbers to prove that your hardware and software resources are being utilized by students. ▪ Get consistent results Stop depending on a lab aide to write down the usage every 15...
Morningstar Invests in ExaGrid, Gains Better Backups by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Morningstar had been backing up its data to tape, but with nightly incremental backups of nearly 6TB and weekly full backups of up to 18TB, its backup windows had grown out of control to overcome it they use ExaGrid solution. Morningstar, Inc. is a...
7-Eleven Stores Ring up Better Backups with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the amount of data the company could back up each night. 7-Eleven Stores began looking for a disk-based backup system in an effort to streamline its nightly data protection procedures and to increase the amount of data the company could back up each night...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
to do an efficient job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces...
Corral Virtual Server Backup by Storage Magazine
the three different ways to back up a VMware server, and the pros and cons of each method. There are several ways to back up VMware servers depending on whether the servers are running VMware Server or VMware ESX Server. In this excerpt from his new book...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization Challenges by Storage Magazine
Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done. Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done.

Last month, I used this space to discuss the pervasiveness of virtual...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
approaches that can be used to back up VMware ESX Server 3.x and its underlying components using Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 for Windows Servers and the Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructure (AVVI). Server virtualization is quickly becoming a...
STORServer Best Practices for Protecting VMware Virtual Machines by STORServer
alternative methods for backing up virtual machines. This paper explains alternative methods for backing up virtual machines, including installing the backup client on each virtual machine and on the ESX Server Service Console to provide for file...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
also reduces the cost of setting up a disaster recovery site, as companies can run mirrored systems on virtual servers rather than having to buy a complete set of identical hardware. But while Virtual Iron's own IT department had server...
Using VMware® ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure for Backup, Restoration, and Disaster Recovery by Hewlett-Packard Company
VMware ESX Server System and VMware Virtual Infrastructure provides many different capabilities to improve these processes each with its own advantages and disadvantages. As all IT pros know, an effective backup, restoration, and DR plan is crucial to successful data center operations. This white paper reviews the benefits and...
Advanced Backup School I by Sun StorageTek
its performance benefits, backing up to disk before tape is making a huge impact on the way backups are done. With the advent of low-cost ATA-based RAID, organizations can improve backup and recovery performance -- and do it more cost effectively. Curtis...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
The firm's IT staff had been backing up all of its data onto tape, but with 5TB of data to protect, backup windows were long and relying on tape meant juggling multiple backup jobs with several different backup servers and tape libraries.

Finally, Konica...
Best Practices for Backup by Syncsort
In this videocast, W. Curtis Preston, one of the leading backup experts in the country, describes some key best practices that will help build a better backup system. There are more and better tools to protect data than ever before, but how they're implemented and used in a storage environment can determine how effective they'll be. With ever...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
to ascertain if data was backed up properly. Proper testing may also require an application to constantly monitor the DR site's storage infrastructure--from the number of disks to the configuration of RAID arrays--to ensure it works and matches the...
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
mainframe under z/OS, but was backing up more than 240 open-systems nodes--Windows, AIX, Linux, Sun and NetWare.

Rideout had long suspected mainframe constraints were slowing down the backup, and things came to a head in the summer of 2005. "We had instances of...
Accelerate Business and Reduce Costs with EMC Archiving Solution by EMC Corporation
This case study tracks the success of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company as they faced enormous growth in production SAP, Microsoft Exchange, and file-sharing environments and details how they handled the resulting problems. ScottsMiracle-Gro Company, the world's largest marketer of branded consumer products for lawn and garden...
Business Value Analysis Study: Backup and Recovery, Endpoint Management, and Endpoint Security by Symantec Corporation
and labor associated with backing up data, delivering software and servers, and managing device inventory. It sought to consolidate disparate and resource-intensive antivirus and anti-spyware solutions; establish firewall, intrusion...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
that data is continuously backed up as it changes.

Protecting these Microsoft applications within your allotted backup window--and recovering them quickly and reliably--presents a formidable challenge. Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 simplifies...
Taking Virtualization from the Data Center to the Desktop: A Closer Look by Hewlett-Packard Company
definitions on each system; backing up the data; and more. As a result of these cost and security issues, an increasing number of companies are considering alternative client devices and new types of infrastructure systems, such as enterprise thin clients...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
is a new option when backing up a database to external storage. Both compression techniques can be used to reduce the amount of online storage required for databases and their backups...
Sunbelt Exchange Archiver (SEA): Your Email Archiving Solution by Sunbelt Software
SEA is a comprehensive email archiving solution from Sunbelt Software that effectively addresses today's corporate email communication needs. SEA is a comprehensive email archiving solution from Sunbelt Software that effectively addresses today's corporate email communication needs. With SEA, emails are stored in their...
Livewire™: Full-Server Protecting and Recovery in Real-Time by Double-Take Software
will keep your second tier servers up-to-date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours or less. Are your second tier servers assigned a lower recovery priority in your overall disaster recovery plan? These...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
about what to snapshot

In today's busy storage environment, it's typically not necessary to back up everything in each process. The same principle is true in snapshots. For example, you may opt to use snapshot tools to protect only key applications such as Oracle databases or Microsoft Exchange records, and then protect more routine data with more traditional... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
importance of data to the organization. As an example, the data on Tier 1 storage may be backed up to local disk on a nightly basis, but data on lower tiers may only be backed up every few days. The result is shorter backup windows and less disk capacity committed to backup storage.

Expand D2D backup operation in phases

Deploy D2D platforms that allow your... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
compression and delta differencing to reduce the amount of data that must be backed up. Smaller backups will execute faster, resulting in a shorter backup window, less drive wear, and lower media usage (and lower media costs). Most backup software packages today include some combination of data reduction features, though dedicated deduplication... More...
FAQ's
What data is actually being backed up when a virtual machine image is backed up?
with traditional backup, you put the agent on there, we're backing up the files, and everyone's happy. If we need to restore a file or an email, it's fairly simple. We go back into the agent and recover it.

In a virtual server environment, the actual virtual machine image is stored as a single file. So, that's... More...

There were early concerns about scalability. Have manufacturers largely dealt with those concerns, or do scalability issues still remain?
There are still concerns about scalability. Up to 20 TB you are probably OK. Once you get up over that, you really need to take a look at how the product is architected, how to manage performance and scalability, and even data destruction on the back end. How does the product remove... More...
You touched on restores from forward referencing and backward referencing deduplication, but what about restores from inline or post-process deduplication?

A little caveat here is if your network and your clients can really keep up with some of the technologies that are out there today. Dedupe on the backend also needs to keep up with post-process. So if anyone has ever run a TSM environment, if you fall behind with your batch operations, say more than two days... More...