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Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
overview on some of the enterprise backup 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...
Replay appImage 2.1 by AppAssure Software
and recovery. Product Type: Windows Backup & Recovery Target User: Network Administrator IT Problem: Replay appImage continuously images any Windows server for complete backup and recovery. IT Download Description: Replay appImage is disk imaging designed for any...
Backup & Recovery by SearchStorage.com
How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are only eight critical decision factors, and this paper covers each of these factors in detail. How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are big drives, small drives, fast...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
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 any SharePoint...
Corral Virtual Server Backup by Storage Magazine
from W. Curtis Preston's new book Backup & Recovery describes 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...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
W. Curtis Preston's new book, Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, explains how dump works and tells what can go wrong at various stages of the dump backup process. cpio, ntbackup, and tar are filesystem-based utilities that access files...
Storage and the Law: Backup, Recovery and Depositions by SearchStorage.com
In this session, you’ll learn what every storage pro needs to know about how new legal requirements regarding electronically stored information affect the storage systems they manage. As the keepers of the corporate data, storage managers can play a pivotal role in ensuring that their companies not only toe the line when it comes to...
Evaluate System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Today by Microsoft
new standard for Windows® backup and recovery -- delivering continuous data protection for Microsoft® application. System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 is the new standard for Windows® backup and recovery -- delivering continuous data protection for...
Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real." In this document W. Curtis Preston, Vice President, Data Protection...
An Introduction to System i (IBM iSeries) High Availability - Get to Know the Core Components of HA Solutions and Important Installation Considerations by Vision Solutions
component of their backup and recovery strategy. In today’s world of ever-expanding hours of business operation and increasing reliance on data availability, it is becoming easier for companies of all sizes to justify the cost of a high availability...
Business Value Analysis Study: Backup and Recovery, Endpoint Management, and Endpoint Security by Symantec Corporation
A Total Operational and Economic Impact (TOEI) analysis by The Alchemy Solutions Group found that the Symantec solutions implemented were driving more than $2 million in labor savings and cost avoidance. The Aspirus Information Technology (IT) Department needed to ensure 24×7 information system operation, support an increasingly...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system protection and recovery. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
This raises the bar for backup and recovery applications like vRanger Pro. Virtualization is becoming more widely used and accepted. As the level of use rises, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
their disaster recovery and backup operations with a disk-based backup system from Exagrid. Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. The firm's IT staff had been backing up all of its data...
Differentiating Hardware- and Software-based Data De-duplication by Symantec Corporation
the capacity of data stored in the backup process-significantly reducing the size of data stores and saving additional investments in disk storage. The popular route to de-duplication has been disk-based backup to "intelligent" disk targets, such as VTLs or...
Virtualization for disaster recovery, an interview with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of Recovery Networks Inc. by SearchServerVirtualization
of backup services provider Recovery Networks Inc., to discuss virtualization for disaster recovery. Editorial Director Jan Stafford sits down with Tom Dugan, Chief Technology Officer of backup services provider Recovery Networks Inc., to discuss...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. A dizzying range of technology choices awaits IT organizations trying to master the art of data protection for virtual server environments. Those choices range...
eGuide - Best Practices for Sharepoint Server 2007 Backup and Disaster Recovery by AvePoint, Inc.
for SharePoint Server 2007 backup and disaster recovery. SharePoint users now demand plans for restoration and backup to ensure consistent access to content housed in this business-critical application. This informative E-Guide, brought to you by...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows servers is the 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...
Simplifying SharePoint Backup and Recovery by Quest Software
for SharePoint data backup and recovery - they’re useful in some situations, but limited in others. In this new white paper, learn more about these native tools – including a key weakness – and what role they should play in your SharePoint backup and recovery...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
for data protection. Backup solutions must protect all computers at the remote site, must enable quick restores of data, and must provide a strategy for long-term offsite storage of backups to protect against disasters. Because remote offices...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
of each, shows how different backup tasks are likely to benefit from them, and talks about the business benefits. Data de-duplication systems, which in the past have required that users apply one de-duplication methodology to all of their jobs, now...
Gartner Names "ExaGrid Cool Vendor" in Data Protection by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
on new and less-expensive disk-based backup options that make the use of disk for faster backup and recovery a more viable option than traditional backup-to-tape methods. The "Cool Vendors in Data Protection" report points to a focus on new and less-expensive disk...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
tools that work alongside major backup apps help you predict usage patterns and troubleshoot issues. Backup and recovery (B/R) applications do a good job of managing tasks such as job scheduling, tape management, library support, tracking backup data in...
NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
leading enterprise backup and recovery solution, provides disk-based data protection for remote office and enterprise datacenter environments. Influenced by factors such as disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, legal pressures, and IT risk...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
performance needs of a disaster recovery plan, and the common barriers to achieving success. It also addresses the performance gains that can be achieved by using an F5 WANJet application acceleration solution. Disaster recovery (DR) plans are becoming a key...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 and easy to transport offsite for...
Disaster Recovery Basics by Dell and Microsoft
asked questions about disaster recovery. This expert Podcast will answer frequently asked questions about disaster recovery. After listening to this podcast you will know more about the basics of disaster recovery and get expert insights into questions...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Lab’s hands-on testing of the ExaGrid backup to disk solution with a focus on ease of deployment, performance, disk capacity optimization, WAN-efficient remote replication and scalability. A growing number of organizations are embracing disk-based backup...
VMware Solutions for Small to Medium Businesses: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery by VMware, Inc.
transforms disaster recovery by providing you fast, reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery. Why suffer from the slow, expensive and unreliable problems associated with traditional disaster recovery solution? VMware Infrastructure...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
It can take up to 12 hours or more to process a full backup job and move the entire backup volume to tape or disk. For many companies, that's just too much time. IT departments can use snapshots to capture entire storage environments, or simply track changes to the state of mission-critical systems. Snapshots can establish... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
As capacities grow and costs per gigabyte shrink, disk is being used as a backup storage target more frequently. Disk offers far better performance than tape systems, allowing for faster data transfers as well as greater long-term reliability. Disk can accept complete backup volumes, as well as simple file copies. For example, backup software... 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... More...
FAQ's
Virtual server backup FAQ
How much are virtualized server environments affecting backup processes? Mark Bowker, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, answers the most common questions about virtual server backup from storage administrators. His answers are also available below as an MP3 file to download.

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Server-free backup FAQ podcast
W. Curtis Preston discusses how server-free backup works, pros and cons of server-free backup, the server-free backup market today, and alternatives to this complicated approach to backing up large data sets.

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Who offers server-free backup products?
I think you'll find that any backup product that's aiming at the enterprise, will offer server-free backup. If a vendor doesn't offer server-free backup they either aren't aiming at the enterprise or they aren't doing it very well. So, if you are the type of company that... More...