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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
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...
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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
Data destruction options for your backup data
are they really gone? In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston discusses data destruction in backup environments. Curtis takes a closer look at the approaches to destruction, regulations and policies regarding destruction and options for outsourcing this...
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What are the benefits of using a virtual tape library (VTL) for data deduplication?
deduplication to the forefront of the decision-making that's going on in backup environments. The bottom line is data deduplication is dramatically changing the economics of using disk as a backup target as opposed to tape. You can only buy so much disk before you run out of funding, but there are a few other...
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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... |