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Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restores by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper presents a case study on Concord 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 struggling with long backup windows...
Global Data Deduplication Results with NetBackup PureDisk by Symantec Corporation
the amount of storage required for backups 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...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Many leading organizations have benefited from using Symantec Backup Exec along with the ExaGrid system for cost-effective disk-based backup with data de-duplication. Four such companies are profiled here. Symantec Backup Exec users may be surprised how quickly they can have their first backup running on the most cost-effective and...
Konica Minolta Reduces Backup Window, Improves Disaster Recovery Strategy with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. is a leader in advanced imaging and networking technologies. This white paper tells how they improved 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...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
item from across multiple database backups before restoring it. Best of all, you can leverage the backups you already have; no proprietary platforms and no site- or item-level backups required. Leverage Your Existing Backup Infrastructure Recovery Manager for...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
daily incrementals and weekly full backups to the VTL system. Fast backups from the VTL to the Quantum tape library could be performed on the back-end, without interruption to production applications. In addition, once a month, the latest full backup of...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
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 applications. 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...
Virtual Server Backup Explained by Data Domain
This Tech 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 that storage professionals have today regarding backup,...
Big Files Create Big Backup Issues by Storage Magazine
It's a 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 to examine, and network and CPU limits can stall throughput when...
Tools to Fine-tune Your Backups by Storage Magazine
such as increased visibility about backups, compliance requirements, reporting consolidation and a need to cover the entire backup cycle, including snapshots and replicas...
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
St. Thomas University needed 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 needed to do something to shorten their backup windows...
Transforming Your Backup Through Data De-Duplication by Quantum Corporation
Quantum's solutions allow data de-duplication technology 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 solution...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
The question of how to effectively back up data has been plaguing IT departments for years. This paper will examine 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...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This white paper discusses the 4 key reasons why one solution's byte-level data deduplication outperforms in-line block-level data deduplication in a disk-based backup system. Read this white paper to learn more. Though data deduplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them recently as they are...
Satisfying the 7 Requirements of Cost-Effective Disk-based Backup by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This paper highlights a 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 run their data protection operations with just...
Morningstar Invests in ExaGrid, Gains Better Backups by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
44; 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 leading provider of independent investment research...
Backup and Recovery: The Benefits of Multiple De-duplication Policies by Quantum Corporation
This white paper explains the differences between the de-duplication approaches, discusses the strengths and limitations 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-...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
In 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 Servers and Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 are complementary...
Windows Enterprise Data Protection with Backup Exec - Best Practices for Implementing a Centralized SAN-Based Infrastructure by Symantec Corporation
they need to efficiently manage backups and restores across a distributed organization. Symantec Backup Exec 12 for Windows servers gives Windows based organizations a flexible, powerful solution they need to efficiently manage backups and...
Advanced Backup School I by Sun StorageTek
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 explains what options you have when creating a disk-based system...
E-mail Recovery, Restoration, Search & Analysis by Kroll Ontrack
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 emergency -- you end up saying "no" more than you would like. Ontrack...
Thomas & King Serves up Improved Backups with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
struggling to keep up with its tape backups to address their day-to-day backup operations and DR requirements.

Finally, they found their perfect solution. This white paper presents a case study on Thomas & King and how they overcame their backup woes through an...
ESG: Disk-based Backup With Data De-duplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
This report presents the results of ESG 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 solutions to improve backup...
Syncsort AdvancedClient: The New Data Protection Paradigm by Syncsort
44; tape libraries, file-level backups, overnight backups, periodic weekend base backups, and restores from multiple backups to get back to yesterday's data state - are fast becoming obsolete.

Read this white paper to learn about a new solution...
Sun's Reference Architecture for Next-Generation Data Backup by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This document describes the Sun reference architecture 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 excellent backup solution...
Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This guide discusses how to quickly configure 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, many organizations do not...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This paper provides a quick review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way to introduce disk into a tapebased backup infrastructure. A VTL is a set of...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
tape libraries will accelerate backups, but there are key differences among them when it comes to scaling, interoperability and management. A virtual tape library (VTL) provides a cost-effective addition to their disk-based backup. By storing data to disk...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
premature to declare nightly full backups dead, but tools like continuous data protection and snapshots can reduce a company's dependence on full backups without compromising data protection. I recently helped a Fortune 100 client evaluate continuous...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
the snapshot once it's stored.

Employ security features to manage recoverability

Traditional backups are usually not recoverable by everyday users, but snapshots can often allow end users to recover the most recent copies of their files without the direct intervention of a storage administrator. While this provides convenience, it also presents a security risk... More...

How to implement disk-to-disk backups
might otherwise be required.

Avoid the use of compression or backup sets

When dealing with D2D backups, it's often a preferred practice to backup in native file system formats and avoid the use of vendor-specific backup save sets or compression-centric formats like .zip or .tar. This may demand additional disk space, but eliminates the need for backup or compression... 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 appliances are also... More...
FAQ's
Do you think data should be deduplicated while the backup is occurring or after it is complete?
level is that these products can do consistent restores, backups and offloads to tape. And, that the product can do these things while maintaining performance.

From a tactical perspective, I like the post-processing approach. As long as you keep buying disk, you can keep doing backups. It may not be... More...

Are there any instances where data deduplication will not provide any benefits? Superior benefits?
. In that case, you're better off just running differential or incremental backups.

As far as areas in which data deduplication can provide superior benefits, databases have a lot of redundant data and deduplication can have dramatic results. Also, large file systems with small numbers of changes are a good... More...

Why should I encrypt tape?
backup best practices, it should. You should be sending a copy of your backups to a vault site, so therefore you want that added level of protection and should the tape become lost, it won't end up in the wrong hands. Encryption makes the data unreadable without the encryption key.

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