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The cost of tape vs. disk data backup By Russ Fellows
The old adage of "time is money" couldn't be more accurate, particularly when determining the value of storing and recovering data. Backing up data can mean different things to IT and business users. To a business user, a backup may imply no loss of data, and nearly instantaneous data recovery. To an IT department, data... More...
Four ways to streamline your data backup process By Russ Fellows
It's common for data backup operations to grow with operating environments, applications or specific business applications. However, backup operations that haven't been examined in more than two years are likely in need of modifications. There are several strategies that can help streamline your backup and... More...
The important differences among VTLs By Russ Fellows
When purchasing a virtual tape library (VTL), it's important to first develop an understanding of the features available. With this knowledge, it is then possible to create a list of features you need. Matching vendors' features to your requirements allows you to create a list of products for consideration. Features... More...
What is electronic vaulting? By Russ Fellows
Electronic vaulting, or e-vaulting, has been used by companies to mean different things. It typically fits between tape backup and disk mirroring as part of an overall data protection plan. It can be a service offering, a product, a feature of a product, or some combination of these. However, in all cases, electronic... More...
Tape backup failures By Russ Fellows
What are the major causes of tape backup failures? There are a wide variety of reasons why data backup or recovery operations fail. Backup and restore operations may fail due to people, hardware, software or media errors. There are essentially six major causes of backup and restore failures:

Human errors Software... More...

Top five tips for VMware data backup By Russ Fellows
What are your top tips for VMware data backup? Virtualized servers, and more specifically the use of VMware, has seen tremendous adoption rates over the past two to three years. Rather than provide a specific set of recommendations, it's more realistic to provide guidelines. If in doubt, call in the professionals... More...
REMOTE BACKUP SOLUTIONS
Enterprise-ready VTLs by Storage Magazine
a cost-effective 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 VTL looks like a...
Are Full Backups a Thing of the Past? by Storage Magazine
to tape are a vital complement to point-in-time backup tools, and will remain so in any comprehensive data protection strategy. The tricky part is to decide how to mix and match backup methods to best meet recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), and stay within your...
Demystifying Unix dump by Storage Magazine
excerpt from W. Curtis Preston's new book, Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems, explains how dump works and tells what can go wrong at various stages of the dump backup process.

cpio, ntbackup, and tar are filesystem-based utilities that access files through the...
Disk-based Data Protection Options: The Changing Data Protection Landscape by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
of protecting 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 term archive data.

But...
Optimizing Storage in VDI Environments by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
provisioning and updates, performance, backup and recovery, and management visibility. VDI-Optimized Storage dramatically improves boot performance and has greater VDI scalability. The benefits of VDI-Optimized Storage are significant savings in storage capacity, dramatically...
Related Knowledgestorm Podcasts
Podcast: Optimize your Network for Better Business Outcomes by Hewlett-Packard Company
leading edge application acceleration to mobile workers, and speed up backup procedures associated with disaster recovery. Your network has never been more critical to business success than it is today, with employees, customers and partners relying on it to communicate easily and transfer large quantities of...
Time to Rethink Backup and Recovery - Virtualization Changes the Paradigm by Vizioncore Inc.
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, experienced users are adopting virtualization to run more of their production applications. This raises the...
Addressing Backup and Recovery in a Consolidated Server Environment: Practical Advice from a Field-Proven Expert by Datalink/NetApp
This podcast discusses the pros and cons of using VMware Consolidated Backup for local backup and recovery, where it makes sense to use consolidated storage in a virtual environment, and the challenges of DR in a consolidated server environment. Organizations are deploying server virtualization at a rapid pace...