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Five Key Considerations for Evaluating the Scalability of Disk-based Backup Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
the scalability of any disk-based backup solution. This paper outlines the five key questions you should ask when evaluating the scalability of any disk-based backup solution.

  • Can the system size to your current requirements and accommodate near-term
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Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
of ExaGrid's disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk. Many organizations use tape to back up data nightly. Tape is fairly inexpensive and low-tech, but managing and administering tape...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
the need to maintain multiple backup solutions, rising storage requirements, and increasingly complicated scheduling and recovery processes.

However, new features in vRanger Pro 4.0 will address and provide a single, comprehensive and complete backup solution...
Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
cost-effective and powerful backup solutions for the largest, most diverse environments...
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 have...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores 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...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
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 through the filesystem. If a...
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...
Thomas & King Serves up Improved Backups with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
backup operations with disk-based backup solutions. Read this white paper to learn more about these solutions and the benefits they deliver. Thomas & King is the eighth-largest restaurant franchise company in the US. With over 7500 employees, the company owns and...
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...
Corral Virtual Server Backup by Storage Magazine
book Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, W. Curtis Preston writes about the advantages and disadvantages of the various methods. Preston also tells how to use bare-metal recovery to migrate to VMware, and how he turned 25 very old physical...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
are embracing disk-based backup solutions to improve backup performance, eliminate tape media management issues and improve the speed and reliability of recovery operations. This ESG Lab report explores how the ExaGrid disk-based backup system uses byte...
ExaGrid: A Scalable Approach to Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
you may have about disk-based backup solutions. Learn what you should be looking for when evaluating disk-based backup vendors and discover how one company stacks up against the criteria, with features including:
  • Modular architecture
  • Non-disruptive scaling
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Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
considering a move to disk-based backup. Dealing with tape is cumbersome and time consuming, however with the cost of SATA falling dramatically; backing up to disk has become a reality for IT departments of all sizes.

As you may know, backing up to disk...
Beyond Virtual Tape Libraries: End-to-End Data Protection with Syncsort Disk-to-Disk Solutions by Syncsort
this white paper to learn why D2D backup solutions are the ideal data protection technologies for y... Today, IT network administrators responsible for data protection are struggling with similar quandaries. While VTL data storage has been "all the rage" lately...
Remote Site Business Continuity with Syncsort XRS by Syncsort

Fortunately, a new disk-based backup solution has emerged that integrates simple server backup and recovery for remote sites with centralized control, while costing much less than conventional mirroring strategies.

Read this white paper to learn...
The Importance of Testing Your Disaster Recovery Plan Regularly by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
any system in your environment?

As backup solutions evolve, so must the tests. You need to verify that technology meets requirements. Don't assume vendors' tests will work for your business-critical data.

Devices to test:
- Tape
- Disk / VTL
- Encryption
- De-duplication
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
recovery of anything in the backup of your SharePoint content database—individual documents, lists, document libraries, sites, workspaces. It restores all information stored in the databases, including alerts, permissions, metadata and custom views...
Archive Information for Retrieval by CommVault Systems, Inc.
This paper examines how data archiving has evolved form simply saving data to making sure information is readily available. It examines new technologies that are optimized for both data retention, as well as accessibility. Archiving corporate information is not a new concept, but the methods for doing so have dramatically changed...
HP Data Protector Software Advanced Backup to Disk Integration with Virtual Tape Libraries White Paper by Hewlett-Packard Company
by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the HP Data Protector Software. This white paper provides a better understanding of the integration of HP Data Protector Software with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the...
More Functionality, Less Infrastructure: Managed IT with Netboot/i by Double-Take Software
well as expensive and ineffective backup solutions. Shifting data storage to Storage Area Networks (SAN) provided numerous advantages in both hard and soft dollar cost savings. The final evolution of storage management is to separate the boot disks from systems and...
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...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
their hardware.

Based on keeping backup data on the storage array for a 60-day retention time, Intellistore was confident these combined solutions would allow Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether,...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
review some of the data protection solutions and discuss the role each plays in formulating a complete IT data protection strategy. There are many different solutions that must be employed today to provide proper data protection for business data. Data loss...
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...
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
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...
Who needs a backup reporting tool?
Any organization that performs a regular backup can use visibility into those processes, which they're not likely to get with a backup application that has some basic reporting capabilities, such as log files.

If you're looking at backup reporting tools, you might be in an... More...

Are there any alternatives to server-free backup that address the same problems?
advent of CDP and near-CDP has created real alternatives to server-free backup. And, I think the large ISVs are agreeing with that. Many, if not most, of them have either acquired CDP technology or they are writing it themselves.

With a large server, I don't have enough time in the day or enough CPU cycles to back up... More...