A Disk by Any Other Name...

Spider-man once said, "With great power comes great responsibility."  Actually it may have been his uncle that said it, but that's beside the point.  Just like discovering super powers complicated Peter Parker's life, unlocking the power of disk-based data protection technologies can be intimidating for even the most savy backup administrators.  Recently, Alex Davies, one of our NetBackup technical experts, wrote a paper to help decipher all of the disk-based technologies available to NetBackup users today.  I thought he did an excellent job of giving a candid review of each of the different disk technologies, including the benefits and drawbacks of each. NetBackup 6.5 Disk-Based Data Protection Capabilities If you don't have time to read the whole paper, I recommend you take a look at the section titled AdvancedDisk.  It's a lesser known feature within NetBackup that allows you to use commodity disk for scalable disk-based backups.  If you are familiar with BasicDisk Storage Units within NetBackup today, you can think of AdvancedDisk as a more scalable, manageable version of BasicDisk.  AdvancedDisk overcomes some of the physical constraints associated with fixed disk drive sizes through the concept of storage pooling. AdvancedDisk also supports the same storage technologies as BasicDisk so it can be a very easy way to upgrade your current NetBackup disk architecture.

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