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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...
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How to implement disk-to-disk backups
data deduplication 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... 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...
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FAQ's
VTL Deduplication FAQ
using a VTL for data deduplication?
There are really no alternatives for disk-based backup outside of backup software options. For example, Symantec Corp. has PureDisk that offers a data deduplication function at the client. IBM Corp. is soon to release a similar function in its software product. Other products like... More...
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. W. Curtis Preston is the vice... More...
What vendors offer backup reporting tools? Who are the major players?
I mentioned earlier, there are vendor-specific tools that are built into backup applications. So companies like BakBone and CA and CommVault have those types of applications that are built right in and report on their own backup application. And then of course you have storage resource management...
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