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Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
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...
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.
of the challenges associated with backing up to disk, but these systems have their challenges as well. Newer, second-generation systems improve upon disk-based backup with de-duplication and eliminate the challenges of the first generation systems.

This paper...
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...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
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 of files...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
and administering tape, backing up to tape and restoring files from it can be time consuming, unreliable and complex. Disk has always been an easier, more reliable alternative, but until recently its high acquisition cost has made it untouchable...
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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.
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.
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...
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
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...
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
on the 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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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
Server-free backup FAQ podcast
backup market today, and alternatives to this complicated approach to backing up large data sets.

Check out the entire Server-free Backup FAQ.

W. Curtis Preston is the vice president of data protection with GlassHouse Technologies.

W. Curtis Preston discusses how server-free backup works, pros and cons of server... More...

How has server virtualization affected the backup window and backup capacity?
after deploying server virtualization. It's significant. You're backing 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... 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...