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Eliminate Tape Restores with TimeData CDP by Double-Take Software
a simple and cost-effective way to recover data to any point in time and resume workflow without the pain of recovering from tape. Have you experienced data loss due to corruption, unwanted changes or malicious attacks such as viruses? Eliminate tape restores...
Best Practices: Will Your Data Recovery Strategy Work for DR? by Storage Magazine
Not all data is created equal or is necessary for business continuity, so a tiered data recovery plan can be most effective. Data recovery solution, whether remote or local, is a set of technologies that supports your disaster...
Storage Bin 2.0: Virtualization Challenges by Storage Magazine
Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done. Backing up and recovering data from virtual machines is easier said than done.

Last month, I used this space to discuss the pervasiveness of virtual machines (VMs) in the...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
and CDP provide excellent ways to recover data from a specific point in time when no known data loss or corruption existed. But it can take a while to discover a file or database error, and snapshots aren't typically kept for a long time. That's why full backups to tape...
The Advantages of Asynchronous Replication by Storage Magazine
the new de facto standard to recover data quickly for business continuity. But because this type of data replication requires similar arrays at both ends of the replication, be prepared to be tied to a particular vendor for a long time.

Storage system-based...
Livewire™: Full-Server Protecting and Recovery in Real-Time by Double-Take Software
up-to-date on disk and ready to recover to any physical or virtual machine in just hours or less. Are your second tier servers assigned a lower recovery priority in your overall disaster recovery plan? These servers and the data on them are still...
Enterprise Backup & Recovery Methodologies for Your Oracle Environment by Datalink/NetApp
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 in under a day? Where do Oracle...
Implementing Highly Available Data Protection with Veritas NetBackup by Symantec Corporation
paper looks at the components of a data protection system based on NetBackup and outlines a number of different configurations and solutions aimed at both reducing the risk of failure within a particular site and recovering from the loss of the site. The...
Recovering Systems up to 20 Times Faster with Solutions from Symantec and OFM Computer Systems, Inc. by Symantec Corporation
to-twentyfold faster ability to recover critical servers. Loss exposure has been minimized.

Business Office Systems deployed Backup Exec™ System Recovery 8 Desktop Edition to restore desktops and laptops in minutes, instead of hours or days, even...
Converging System and Data Protection in Windows Environments by Symantec Corporation
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 solutions that deliver complete Windows based data and system...
Recovery Manager for SharePoint by Quest Software
system. Get your business-critical 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...
Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
DR) by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. But, just as virtual servers complicate backup procedures, server virtualization has an impact on storage infrastructures and may require tweaking disaster recovery plans for storage...
Untangling Data Deduplication by Overland Storage
basics and trends related to data deduplication. In this videocast, analyst and industry veteran Arun Taneja uncovers some of the important basics and trends related to data deduplication. Arun discusses the primary concerns around data dedupe...
New Technologies for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity by F5 Networks
forces that can lead to a loss of data, a data protection plan is serious business. Read this white paper for information on such a plan. Enterprise data protection has grown up. With the frequent threat of virus attacks, hackers, and the...
Data Protection Scenarios and Solutions by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
data protection for business data. Data loss can occur when users or applications accidentally delete one or more files. Data needs to be protected from virus infection. Data must be restored or recreated when a single disk drive or an entire disk subsystem...
Hot Spots: Data Deduplication Drama by Storage Magazine
by knowing where to look for it. Data deduplication for secondary storage is prompting as much passion from vendors as it is confusion for some users. Why? Because dedupe is one of those influential, crucial technologies that comes along every few years.

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NetBackup 6.5: Enabling Next-Generation Disk-Based Data Protection by Symantec Corporation
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 management, many IT organizations need to...
Hancock Bank by VMware, Inc.
which enabled them to recover critical systems within its 24-hour recovery objective while reducing costs. Hancock Bank needed a cost-effective way to provide rapid, reliable disaster recovery and to contain server sprawl.

VMware...
Delivering Integrated Security, Recovery, and Archive Protection with Symantec Backup Exec 12 by Symantec Corporation
to efficiently secure, recover, and archive critical information. Today's businesses must keep their infrastructures up and running 24x7. They must be able to access information anytime and anywhere. That means that the physical systems,...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
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 of managing the explosive growth of...
The Big Picture You've Never Seen: Enterprise SharePoint Recovery by Quest Software
individuals are moving all types of data and applications to it at break-neck speed. SharePoint is Microsoft's fastest-growing product and is being adopted within organizations at an almost viral rate. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007...
Protecting Sharepoint with Double-Take for Windows 5.0 by Double-Take Software
way to protect your SharePoint data and access. As the distributed workforce grows, the need for online collaboration and document management grows with it. MSFT SharePoint® streamlines online collaboration, making it possible to create...
Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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 have the staff or budget to...
Virtual DR: Disaster Recovery Planning for VMware Virtualized Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. VMware server virtualization is being touted as a near panacea for DR by making it easier than ever to recover servers to a secondary site. But, just as virtual servers complicate backup...
Developing a Business Continuity Strategy by CDW Corporation
44; and a higher risk of lost data or information.

This white paper details the importance of a well defined business continuity strategy. Discover the broad range of planning, technologies and techniques that must be employed to make continuous...
Building a Reliable and Dynamic Data Center with PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
The dynamic data center is within reach today, but how it is achieved and how well it performs can vary widely from among the many approaches being offered. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and how to get...
L.L.Bean Overhauls its Backup Process by Storage Magazine
recalls. "In some cases, not all the data was recovered." Open-systems backups were a particular concern...
Total Cost Comparison: Storage Solutions in Enterprise VMware Environments by NetApp
This study explains the impact of power, cooling, space considerations on VMware storage deployments and the estimates for cost of downtime in order to ensure validity for all types of environments. This study identified three primary reasons for lower total cost when deploying VMware with NetApp:

  • NetApp has a 29% to 34% advantage
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Making Your Business Disaster Ready with Virtual Infrastructure by Hewlett-Packard Company
the equipment in the primary data center. Upgrades to both primary and recovery target equipment must occur in lock-step, hence many companies forgo the process.

Yet, companies that make compromises in disaster recovery strategy such as...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
(RPOs) by supporting more frequent recovery points. When properly implemented, snapshot data can be used to restore lost files or recover from more substantial data loss. Features like data deduplication are also appearing in snapshots to reduce disk storage requirements, allowing for many more snapshots and longer retention periods. Below are a series... More...
How to implement disk-to-disk backups
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 can send a full backup volume to a virtual tape library (VTL) emulating the behaviors of a traditional tape system... 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... More...
FAQ's
CDP FAQ
Continuous data protection (CDP) is becoming an increasingly attractive data protection and backup option. But is CDP right for your business? W. Curtis Preston, vice president of data protection services at GlassHouse Technologies, compares... More...
What is the difference between a traditional file-level backup and a virtual machine backup?
back up that snapshot.

Another thing you should be aware of is that you can recover the entire virtual machine, but you can't recover a single file within that virtual machine. So, you have to restore the entire virtual machine, remount the virtual machine and then recover the file.

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What is the difference between server-free and LAN-free backup?
is simply connecting the server that needs to be backed up to a SAN, so the data is transferred over Fibre Channel to a tape drive, VTL or disk.

In server-free backup, the data does not flow through the server being backed up. The server being backed up is still involved, because it has to do things like quiesce the... More...