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Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
the Sun Fire X4540 server as a backup server for Amanda Enterprise Edition software. Explosive data growth, combined with demanding requirements for data availability, has placed a tremendous burden on IT operations staff at businesses of all sizes. Yet...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
processes. This is because, to the backup server and backup application, the VTL looks like a traditional tape library. Benefits include squeezing ever-larger data sets into tight backup windows, retrieving data quickly when required for legal or regulatory...
Presentation Transcript: Storage Virtualisation - Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups. This document is based on a DataDomain/TechTarget webcast entitled "Making Virtual Backups Real" where Curtis Preston discusses server virtualization and backups...
IT Briefing: Making Virtual Backups Real by Data Domain
Curtis Preston will discuss about 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 Services at...
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...
University of St. Thomas implements a tiered storage approach from Quantum, including Data De-duplication Technology to Cut Backup Time in Half by Quantum Corporation
to do something to shorten their backup windows and make everything more reliable and more robust, so they chose Quantum DXi™ appliance. St. Thomas is an independent Catholic liberal arts university with its main campus in St. Paul, Minnesota. They...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
scalable, cost-effective disk-based backup solution that works with your existing backup application. Learn how it satisfies the 7 requirements of cost-effective disk-based backup and the advantages it has over other solutions. Organizations today cannot...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
Report gives an overview of virtual server backup and what you need to know to prepare an effective virtual server backup strategy including the available tools, tactics used for deployment, best practices and potential drawbacks. With the ongoing headaches...
Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
for next-generation data backup using Symantec NetBackup software. The Sun reference architecture for next-generation data backup, powered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server and using Symantec NetBackup 6.5.2 software, provides an...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
data back online before the entire server farm comes back. Recovery Manager for SharePoint provides granular recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces. It...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
and to more efficiently centralize backup data to multiple sites for assured disaster recovery. Veritas NetBackup PureDisk from Symantec uses data deduplication technology to help customers address these data protection challenges.

At the heart of...
Comprehensive Backup and Recovery of VMware Virtual Infrastructure Symantec BE 12.5 for Windows Server by Symantec Corporation
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 standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments...
Replay appImage 2.1 by AppAssure Software
and data volumes for comprehensive server backup. appImages utility packs make disaster recovery, replication and virtualization a snap. Replay appImage is revolutionizing backup, imaging and disaster recovery, resulting in a dramatic shift in how...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
Snap Server data protection solutions provide the simplest way to protect critical data stored on desktops, laptops, file and application servers, and Snap Servers at remote offices. Remote offices and retail locations...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows servers gives Windows based organizations a flexible, powerful solution they need to efficiently manage backups and restores across a distributed organization. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for...
E-Guide - 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...
E-mail Recovery, Restoration, Search & Analysis by Kroll Ontrack
with your existing Exchange backup architecture and procedures, Ontrack PowerControls quickly and easily restores message-level items from any previous full backup. After all, a backup program is really only as good as its ability to restore lost...
Corral Virtual Server Backup by Storage Magazine
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 Backup & Recovery...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink/NetApp
can help you avoid many virtual server backup and recovery challenges. Given the current prevalence of VMware in many installations, this paper focuses primarily on backup and recovery considerations in VMware environments...
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...
Reducing Backup Volume: Key Ways your Organization can Save by Quantum Corporation
Time & Money 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...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
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 to examine, and network and CPU limits can...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
this whitepaper learn how Symantec Backup Exec12 for Windows Servers 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...
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data and Backup Compression by Unisys
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces two new compression features (available in Enterprise and Developer editions) that are of interest to users with large databases they are Data compression and Backup compression. Microsoft SQL...
Addressing Backup and Recovery in a Consolidated Server Environment: Practical Advice from a Field-Proven Expert by Datalink/NetApp
cons of using VMware Consolidated Backup for local backup and recovery, where it makes sense to use consolidated storage in a virtual environment, and the challenges of DR in a consolidated server environment. Organizations are deploying server...
E-Guide - 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...
Windows Server 2008 Backup Tool - A Review of Its Features by Global Knowledge
significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista. This white paper presents some of the more significant pros and cons of the Server 2008 version of the backup tool that debuted in Windows Vista, so that...
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...
Backup Express and Novell Open Enterprise Server: A Business Continuity Model for OES Migration by Syncsort
system migration might complicate backup and recovery if you are not cautious. This white paper offers guidelines to assess whether your business-critical data and applications are protected and available during a migration project. In an ideal world,...
Podcast: Reducing Storage Costs in a Virtual Server Environment: Seven Questions and Answers by Forsythe Technology Inc.
This podcast highlights server virtualization and shows solutions for dramatically improving the efficiency of backup applications. Server virtualization continues its momentum in mainstream IT operations. While it appears server...
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
files before moving

Processing a backup job takes time and demands significant work from the backup server. Some storage or backup administrators choose to process the entire backup job to the local server first, and then move the backup volume to the final storage platform. "Look for solutions that can reduce the amount of time pre-scanning your file systems before... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
alternative media such as Blue-Ray (high-capacity) DVD or emerging holographic discs.

Match the backup server to the tape drive

Tape drive and server performance is often mismatched, and the server cannot pass data to the drive fast enough. The tape drive must then stop, rewind the tape to new start point and then continue; this process is called shoeshining, and it causes... More...

FAQ's
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.

Check out the entire Server-free Backup FAQ.

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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...
How virtualizing servers has impacted the backup process
With server virtualization, things are definitely different. There are a lot of advantages, but things are very different when you are backing up virtual servers. What we are finding is the amount of data that needs to be backed up has... More...