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Tape Backup Performance and Reliability Best Practices by Dell | EqualLogic
best practices related to tape backup performance and reliability, troubleshooting automated tape libraries, and managing long term tape archives. This document discusses best practices related to tape backup performance and reliability...
Overcoming the Challenges of Tape with a Disk-Based Backup Solution by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
available at about the same price of tape backup systems. This white paper examines the pros and cons of both technologies and will present a cost analysis of ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with data de-duplication and compression vs. tape and standard SATA disk...
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...
Magnum Semiconductor Cuts Backup Costs in Half, Reduces Backup Time by 80% with ProtecTIER™ by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Magnum to save 50% over their current tape backup costs. Not ruling out tape altogether, Intellistore included a Quantum tape library, also attached to the Quatrio PIVOT VTL appliance via Fibre Channel connections, to give Magnum disaster recovery protection on...
The Benefits of Second Generation Disk-Based Backup Technology by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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 choice because it is inexpensive and easy to transport offsite for...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn about the 7 critical questions to ask when considering a move to disk-based backup. Dealing...
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 needed to do...
The Advantages of Deduplication-Based Disk Systems for Onsite Backup Storage by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
the advantages for companies using tape backup to move to deduplication-based disk systems for onsite backup storage. This PowerPoint presentation is from a Storage Decisions session (New York 2008) that explores how, although disk systems are cheaper than ever...
Fast and Simple Recovery of Your Critical Microsoft Applications by Symantec Corporation
high-performance, disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. Companies today face the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of valuable data. Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
was asked if full nightly backups to tape were still needed given the advent of disk-based technologies like snapshots and CDP. Trying not to sound like a consultant attempting to please everyone, I answered "It depends." Snapshots and CDP provide excellent...
Major Considerations in Moving to Disk-based Backups by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
disk and tape components to meet the backup capacity, performance, reliability, and security requirements of your environment. This paper explains the process of selecting the right mix of disk and tape components to meet the backup capacity, performance...
Thomas & King Serves up Improved Backups with ExaGrid by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
company was able to improve their backup operations with disk-based backup solutions. Thomas & King is the eighth-largest restaurant franchise company in the US. With over 7500 employees, the company owns and operates 90 Applebee's and seven Carino's Italian...
Data Deduplication Made Simple by Data Domain
deduplication helps consolidate tape backup efforts and reduce the use of tape for data protection ▪ And more
IT Briefing: Data Deduplication and Disk Backups: An End-User’s Guide to Success by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
job of backing up to disk. Tape-based backup solutions are fraught with problems. Restore time from tape is prohibitive and tape proliferation is a concern. These problems can be solved by backing up to disk; data deduplication reduces the size of...
Disaster Recovery for Remote Offices: It's Easier to Get Right Than You May Have Thought by Overland Storage
on disk-to-disk and disk-to-disk-to-tape backup and recovery. From the leader in storage that you trust, Snap Server solutions are easy to set up and run, delivering set-and-forget protection for remote offices. These disk-based solutions ensure fast backup and...
Data Deduplication Methodologies: Byte-level vs. Block Level Deduplication by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
advantages, including shorter backup windows, faster restore times, content awareness and backup application integration, and better scalability. Though data de-duplication technologies have been around for years, there is a renewed focus on them...
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
addition to their disk-based backup. By storing data to disk rather than tape, the VTL speeds data backup and retrieval without requiring users to change their existing backup processes. This is because, to the backup server and backup application, the...
ESG - A Compelling Disk Backup Story by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
white paper explores how disk-based backup has emerged and why it is so critical in today's storage environments. Read this white paper to also learn how one company has blossomed in the disk market and the products they offer. Over the past few years, disk-based...
Backup & Recovery by SearchStorage.com
How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are only eight critical decision factors, and this paper covers each of these factors in detail. How do you decide which type of backup drive to purchase? There are big drives, small drives, fast...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
The use of tape virtualization will improve backup performance and reliability while allowing you to preserve investment in your existing tape infrastructure. Virtual tape library (VTL) technology is arguably the easiest way...
Disaster Recovery Basics by Dell and Microsoft
insights into questions, such as: ▪ Are tape backups a thing of the past for disaster recovery? ▪ How can I improve recovery time without using replication? ▪ How far apart should production and recovery sites be? ▪ Are backup service providers a good idea...
Disk Based Backup - Implementation Techniques by Dell | EqualLogic
Preston regarding disk vs. tape backup. This document also discusses proven implementation techniques for disk-to-disk backups, what to be aware of when evaluating VTL, and how to equip your organization for changes in data protection technologies...
Securing Data Stored on Tape with Encryption: How to Choose the Right Encryption Key Management Solution by Quantum Corporation
built into every Quantum LTO-4 tape drive can help organizations prevent a costly and embarrassing security breach. The right encryption key management solution can help minimize the impact of encryption processes on IT operations. The encryption...
ESI Risk Management Part I Best Practices for IT by Google
services continue to target backup tapes. A sure way to reduce the need to make this argument is to be proactive. Evaluate your historical data ahead of litigation. Identify business records on the media, move it to an archive and apply the appropriate...
The Power of Disk-based Backup with Symantec Backup Exec by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
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...
VTL Data Management Issues by Storage Magazine
With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries within storage environments, storage managers face an increased number of decisions in regards to managing and cataloging the transfer of data to tape. With the proliferation of virtual tape libraries...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
primary disk storage data was to backup that data onto one or more magnetic tapes on a daily basis. Magnetic tape will continue to play a critical role in data protection, offering the lowest cost storage medium for maintaining offsite backup data and long...
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...
US AFB Implements ProtecTIER™ - Cuts Backup Time by 50 Percent While Maximizing the Use of Existing Storage Resources by Diligent Technologies Corporation, an IBM Company
Fibre Channel fabric, a new IBM 3584 tape library with seven LTO-3 tape drives, and a virtual tape disk-to-disk solution using SATA drives. In choosing the virtual tape solution, the team worked with Ken Payne of Abba Technologies. One thing that sparked the team...
Using Disk-based Backup for Better Backups and Restore 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...
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
error-prone process.

Consider the use of removable hard drives

Where disk capacity is finite, a tape backup can be almost any size (within the limits of the operating system and backup software) -- just add more tape cartridges. Tapes can also be transported for offsite storage. A new generation of removable hard drives from vendors like Imation Corp., Prostor Systems Inc... 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... More...
FAQ's
Are there any benefits or drawbacks of choosing a separate tool for backup reporting compared with using a tool that's integrated with your backup software?
The backup applications usually provide some fundamental reporting on backup operations. You might have a dashboard view and some canned reports that focus on things like backup job status or media, or device error. And if you need to drill... More...
Are organizations using the same tools to back up virtual server environments that they have in the past?
do is deploy the same type of environment in which they are installing a backup agent inside of the guest OS or inside the virtual machine itself. There are other instances in which people are using the server virtualization vendor tools; these tools complement the backup process. Some people are writing... More...
How virtualizing servers has impacted the backup process

However, in some cases server virtualization can reduce the number of backup licenses. This is a nice benefit. You don't have to run as many agents as in the past, and you can save some money there.

In some environments, server virtualization has prompted the use of a secondary storage system, for example, a disk-to... More...