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Backup Guides
You asked for it, so here it is -- a printable version of our Backup All-In-One Guide. These days, traditional tape systems often do not meet the demands of today's busy data centers, and administrators are turning to disk-based storage for data protection, backup tasks and archival storage. Learn more about disk-to-disk...
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As the volume of data in an organization grows, the amount of repeated data takes a toll on storage availability.
For example, a 10 MB PowerPoint presentation copied to 100 users will require 1 GB of storage for the attachments on an Exchange server. The problem gets worse when that 1 GB of duplicated storage is... More... Backups protect the enterprise by creating a copy of important data. If regular production data is lost or destroyed through some disaster, the backup may be all that stands between recovery and bankruptcy. But the goal of backups isn't about creating a copy; it's about timely recovery. A backup administrator must...
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Backup Tips
to create business continuity for virtual machines (VMs). VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) is one of these products. Often misunderstood as the complete answer for a virtual data center, VCB requires some preparation and understanding for backup administrators currently used to the traditional...
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Oct 13, 2008
Restoring Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 components from a data backup is usually a fairly simple process, but things can -- and sometimes will -- go wrong.
A typical restoration consists of these five steps: Log onto the SharePoint server with administrative credentials, open the Central... More... Aug 4, 2008
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Featured Articles
Does data deduplication to tape storage make sense?
toward playing a role in backups to tape as well. Data backup vendors CommVault Systems Inc. and CA recently launched products that support dedupe to tape as well as disk, and while it may eventually take off, the concept still makes people nervous.
While data deduplication shrinks the amount of data... More... Jun 25, 2009
Continuous data protection (CDP) playing a role in data backup
data protection (CDP) was all the rage for disk-based backup three years ago. But unlike dedupe, continuous data protection never made a great impact on traditional data backup and recovery products. Instead, larger vendors scooped up many of the startups, and not always primarily for their CDP...
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Jun 24, 2009
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Featured Podcasts
Backup reporting FAQ podcast
answers today's most common questions about backup reporting.
Checkout the entire Backup reporting FAQ In this podcast, Lauren Whitehouse, analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group, answers today's most common questions about backup reporting... More...
Podcast: Online backup addresses specific SMB, enterprise needs
Stephanie Balaouras, backup and recovery analyst with Forester Research, and Andrew Burton, Editor of SearchDataBackup.com, discuss how online backup is employed in small- to medium-sized businesses, as well as how its being used to address...
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Expert Backup Advice
Remote-office backup and data deduplication
For remote-office backup data, how do you determine where and when to use data deduplication? What are the best solutions and what top three vendors should I consider for a solution to remote-office backup data? Essentially, the decision point is not when to use data deduplication but rather than when to use disk as backup target. Once the need to use disk has been established, deduplication increases the efficiency of disk utilization.
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