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Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Camera and how they overcame their backup woes through an efficient disk-based backup solution. Concord Camera Corp. designs, develops, manufactures and markets, popularly priced, easy-to- use image capture products. The IT staff at Concord Camera was...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
TSM) Retrieve Data Anytime – And Restore Anywhere Recovery Manager for SharePoint is an enterprise recovery solution that provides emergency access to all SharePoint content all the time. With Recovery Manager, any recovered content can be restored to...
Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
as a nearline storage platform for backup and restore applications. Combining the power of the SolarisTM 10 Operating System with the data integrity and simplified administration of ZFS, the Sun Fire X4540 server can be an ideal candidate for streamlining and...
eGuide - How to Backup Sharepoint Server 2007 by AvePoint, Inc.
an overview of the SharePoint backup and restore utility. With the increased use and popularity of SharePoint, IT staff is under pressure to ensure that this business-critical application is highly available on a consistent basis. In this E-Guide, brought to you by...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
Traditional backup strategies are fast becoming obsolete. Read this white paper to learn about a new solution that revolutionizes data protection strategies compared to the technologies of yesterday. Traditional backup...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
enterprise requires centralized backup and recovery, license inventory and discovery, easy-to-configure SAN support, or efficient disk-to-disk-to-tape data protection, Symantec Backup Exec 12 provides market-leading Windows data protection and recovery to...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
considering a move to disk-based backup - and examine the pros and cons of popular approaches...
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
the outdoor gear retailer's storage backup and restore environment. The system was built around IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and ran 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...
Data Protection Using Premium Features: PowerVault™ MD3000 and MD3000i by Dell, Inc.
real-world benefits for data backup and data management. The Virtual Disk Snapshot premium feature includes the following capabilities: • Data protection by providing a readily available point-in-time image that reduces restore time, especially as...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ - Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
decided to address growing backup and restore problems, they turned to protecTIER. Organizations performing services for the U.S. Government are held accountable for meeting strict standards as part of the services they provide. When engineers for the United...
Security Explorer™ for SQL Server, Version 6.6 by ScriptLogic Corporation
password combinations. Backup and Restore Permissions - Instant recovery of SQL Server permissions to restore security and maintain compliance. High-Performance Interface - A multi-threaded architecture, cached browsing, and "Stop" button to stop...
CommVault Customer Survey Data Validation and User ROI by CommVault Systems, Inc.
administrative time; and backup and restore performance. CommVault’s customers participated in an online survey in March 2008 which documented the ROI across infrastructure, software, and services spending; backup reliability; administrative time; and...
Top Use-Cases for Replication Demand Integration with Backup and Restore Capabilities by CommVault Systems, Inc.
embedded, application-embedded and system hosted software. Depending on the systems environment and rate of change of the data, each of these approaches has its own advantages and compromises to offer. Typically, however, storage- and network-embedded...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
to become part of a complete backup and retention solution set that also includes conventional disk backup, tape, replication, and encryption. Quantum’s solutions allow data de-duplication technology to become part of a complete backup and retention...
Enabling Economically Viable Long-Term Disk-Based Data Protection by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
reliability and performance of backup and restore operations; reducing cost of on-site data retention; improving the cost and reliability of electronic off-site data transfer; and enhancing access to archive data...
Five Key Considerations for Evaluation the Scalability of Disk-Based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Does the system maintain leading backup and restore performance as capacity is added? • Does the system’s core architecture scale along with your data...
Software for E-mail Recovery, Restoration, Search & Analysis by Kroll Ontrack
for copying, searching, recovering and analyzing mailbox items directly from Microsoft Exchange Server backups and Information Store files and even from your live Exchange server. Let’s face it, not every request to restore email files and messages is an...
NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices by NetApp
virtual machine (VM) backup and restore; instantaneous mass VM cloning for testing, application development, and training purposes; and simple and flexible business continuance options. This technical report reviews the best practices for...
Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors by Dell, Inc. and Intel
security products, backup and restore, and SAN connectivity costs • Data center—power, cooling, hosting, and connectivity costs
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
with 95% Reduction in Backup Volume and Saving $12,000 annually on tape media costs. Virtual Iron Software knows the value of consolidation. The fast-growing Lowell, Massachusetts, firm provides server virtualization software that has helped more than...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability. Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
backup solution to fulfill their backup and disaster recovery requirements. This white paper explains how they were able to find the perfect solution and the benefits it delivered, including: Data deduplication capabilities Faster data restores Improved...
The Importance of Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan Regularly by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
recovery plan testing is necessary and what and when to test. This presentation discusses why disaster recovery plan testing is necessary and what and when to test. How many of you have a disaster recovery plan that includes restoring data from backup as a...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the differences between the first and second generation disk-based backup systems. The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. To date, magnetic tape has been the medium of choice because it is inexpensive...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions. Organizations today cannot run their data protection operations with just strictly tape solutions. Although tape may be cheaper than disk, the overall costs of tape are...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
With a more flexible approach to backup and recovery using multiple policies, companies can enjoy new business benefits from data de-duplication: ▪ Performance that meets the most demanding backup windows and doesn’t throttle the backup process ▪ The fastest...
Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper explores and outlines how to apply HP Data Protector 6.0/6.1 software and other key HP StorageWorks storage array technologies to manage and deploy an effective backup strategy in a VMware Virtual Infrastructure. Rapid adoption...
Recovering Systems up to 20 Times Faster with Solutions from Symantec and OFM Computer Systems, Inc. by Symantec Corporation
Edition to restore desktops and laptops in minutes, instead of hours or days, even to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Chicago-based Business Office Systems, Inc. realized its exposure to potential financial loss from system or server...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper examines the pros and cons of tape and disk-based storage technologies and presents a cost analysis of ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk. Many organizations use...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
Snapshots can establish recovery points in just a fraction of the time needed for a traditional backup and can significantly reduce recovery point objectives (RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
technologies

Data deduplication has become an indispensable element of disk-based backup, and should be an integrated part of the storage platform itself. Deduplication systematically locates and eliminates redundant data stored within the disk array. This can effectively compress storage as much as 50:1 over time -- not only easing capital expenditures... 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 spite of... More...
FAQ's
Has the restore process changed at all?
at virtual machines, there are a few things you need to consider. The restore process can be just as it has been traditionally. If you have an agent-based backup system, you can restore a single file back into the virtual machine just as we have in the past.

But, if you are doing system-level backups where you are... More...

What type of environment is server-free backup best suited for?
The best way to do any backup is the simplest way to do that backup. Complexity brings, well, complexity. But, along with complexity comes cost and risk that things could go wrong. So, server-free backup is more complicated than other forms of backup. Therefore, it... More...
When does data deduplication using backup software on the host make sense?
that you really need to consider. If you're bandwidth constrained and are trying to back up data and you have large amounts of data coming over the network, then using data deduplication at the host makes a lot of sense. That can dramatically free up the amount of bandwidth that you have.

It is important... More...