Backing Up Data

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The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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...
Business Value Analysis Study: Backup and Recovery, Endpoint Management, and Endpoint Security by Symantec Corporation
the cost 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...
Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
options available for Oracle data. Backing up and recovering Oracle data presents 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...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. It's a long-standing problem: As data piles up on a server, completing a successful backup becomes harder. Backup apps become bogged down with millions...
Backing Up VMware Data for Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
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 know that VMware server...
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
there is one huge disadvantage to backing up files through the filesystem: the backup affects inode times--in a Unix-based operating system, an inode is a stored description of an individual file--(atime or ctime...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
their servers and streamline their data centers, resulting in as much as a ten-fold boost in resource utilization. The software also reduces the cost of setting up a disaster recovery site, as companies can run mirrored systems on virtual servers...
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User's Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
necessary 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...
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...
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...
Denver Health by VMware, Inc.
organization.

By pairing up the LeftHand SAN/iQ Multi-Site/Campus SAN with a VMware® ESX High Availability (HA) cluster, Denver Health was able to provide synchronous site replication between its two data centers, which were located...
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...
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...
STORServer Best Practices for Protecting VMware Virtual Machines by STORServer
explains 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...
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...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
gold standard in Windows® data protection, providing cost-effective, high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Companies today face the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of...
Best Practices for Backup by Syncsort
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 growing data capacities, it's critical to plan appropriately, develop efficient...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
a new solution that revolutionizes data protection strategies compared to the technologies of yesterday. Traditional backup strategies - based on tape, tape libraries, file-level backups, overnight backups, periodic weekend base backups,...
Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 for VMware 3.x: Best Practices by Symantec Corporation
software is making its way into data centers of every size. Recognizing this trend, Veritas NetBackup™ has engineered innovative, award winning data protection solutions designed specifically for VMware environments. This paper covers best...
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
compression 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...
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...
Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking Out Virtualization Technologies by F5 Networks
all the way back through the Data Center into application, storage, and delivery networks. While Virtualization is solid technology, one definition for this word doesn't cover all parts of the virtualization story. What does...
Tools to Test Your DR Plan by Storage Magazine
plan requires tools 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...
Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5: Designing and Implementing Backups Using Storage Lifecycle Policies by Symantec Corporation
to simplify the way in which backed-up data is organized. This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery service levels and how they can be deployed to help ensure that backup storage is used cost-effectively while still maintaining appropriate...
Software-as-a-Service: A Comprehensive Look at the Total Cost of Ownership of Software Applications by Cisco Systems, Inc.
software applications can be up to four times the cost of the initial purchase. As a result, companies end up spending more than 75% of their total IT budget just on maintaining and running existing systems and software infrastructure.1 With the...
Cloudy Future for Storage? (Editorial) by Storage Magazine
storage players ponied up big bucks to snare online storage service providers. Much of the activity has been around online backup, with EMC scarfing up Mozy, Seagate buying EVault and Iron Mountain corralling LiveVault, among other deals...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
of snapshots are rarely necessary or practical. Few storage administrators see the wisdom in backing up snapshots that will likely "age out" of storage in just a few months.

Use heterogeneous snapshot software

Many storage systems ship with some type of snapshot software. This may greatly simplify taking or storing snapshots on that particular storage system, but... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
organization to phase in disk-based backup easily and cost-effectively. For example, start by backing up non-production data to disk, then systematically expand D2D coverage to archive and nearline data, and then finally use D2D to protect more critical production data over time. A phased approach allows backup administrators to become accustomed to the D2D... More...
How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In... More...
FAQ's
How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
up the operating system, you're backing up applications, and you're backing up data.

Then, there is the proliferation of virtual machines or VM sprawl. Once you get the infrastructure set up and in place, actually deploying the virtual machine is pretty simple. It's really just a matter of clicking a couple of... More...

Are organizations using the same tools to back up virtual server environments that they have in the past?
hypervisor itself, which helps with the backup process. Other people are backing up with snapshot.

There are lots of options, it's really just understanding what is best for your environment.

Check out the entire Virtual server backup FAQ

So, in a traditional approach, you've got client-side agents deployed, there's a... 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...