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How deduplication can contribute to the restore process….
stefaanv | 22 Jan 2013 | 1 comment

How deduplication can contribute to the restore process….

A couple of days back, whilegiving a PureDisk lecture, I got into an interesting discussion about howdeduplication technologies pop up at different levels: deduplication at the source, at the target,at a gateway level, or built into the application. You name it; they are allavailable and focused on incredible numbers pushed by dedup enthusiasts.

In the case of the backupsolutions, the focus seems primarily on dedup savings during the backupprocess, where higher deduplication rates can deliver higher backupthroughputs, reduce backup time, and support much longer retention on disk. Allare correct and very efficient, don't get me wrong, as I'm one of thoseenthusiasts, but what about the restore process? That is where thediscussion touched an interesting subject...

Can deduplication be used toimprove the restore speed? The answer is Yes!

Take, for example, the remoteoffice...

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Meet the NetBackup Guy
Joe Pfeiffer | 22 Jan 2013 | 11 comments

This week we launched a fun little site at NetBackupGuy.com. The first episode is up and shows our favorite little blue guy handling a monster of a large Exchange backup by using the fitness regimen of Granular Recovery Technology. There’s a few more videos to come so let us know what you think. The site lets you embed the videos so you can share them with other NBU friends. We’ve also put it up on Digg, delicious, Facebook and a few other social places if you wish to share.

As an easter egg if you check out the resumes for the characters on NetBackupGuy.com you can email them directly and we’re watching. We may even slip a few people a nice prize for entertaining us through emails sent to the characters. Hope you enjoy it and let us know your comments.

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@netbackup
TimBurlowski | 22 Jan 2013 | 2 comments

This post pre-supposes that you have heard of twitter – if you haven’t, check out the wikipedia article. NetBackup has been on twitter for a while. Mostly we tweet NetBackup news or pointers to blog posts. When we see someone tweeting about NetBackup we’ll tweet back and see if there is anything we can do to help.

 

I have been very inspired to read about Comcast and how they use twitter as an adjunct to their normal email and phone customer service. Twitter, in addition to it's usefulness as a micro-blog platform, can be a great way to find out about problems early and prevent customers from becoming...

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Writing the Book on Virtual Backup
TimBurlowski | 22 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

 

I am constantly looking for additional data on the markets, especially as it relates to markets served by NetBackup. I have access to the usual suite of products from industry analysts as well as our own internal intelligence and, of course, I monitor industry blogs, the press and a host of other data sources. One of the odder things I like to monitor is the book sales trends as published by O'Reilly. Today in their blog post, "State of the Computer Book Market 2008, Part 1: The Market" they published their findings from the most recent quarter and year. Not surprisingly they reported that 2008 was the worst year for the dataset they are tracking – although the decline was not as steep as it was in 2001 (which precedes their tracked data set). Although sales are down in general, there are some categories reporting significant positive "rate of...

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NetBackup PureDisk 6.5.1 is Now Available for download!
stefaanv | 22 Jan 2013 | 4 comments

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NetBackup 6.5.3.1 and 6.0 MP7S Are Now Available
Joe Pfeiffer | 22 Jan 2013 | 5 comments

NetBackup 6.5.3.1 and NetBackup 6.0 MP7S are now posted on the Symantec support site <a href="http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=15143">here</a> (click downloads on the right and select the version).  NetBackup 6.5.3.1 is the first “triple-dot” hot-fix release produced by NetBackup, and it delivers a security vulnerability fix, a scheduler correction for backup windows that span midnight, and corrective fixes to the scheduler when spring and fall daylight savings time changes occur.  NetBackup 6.0 MP7S delivers the same fixes on the 6.0 code line.  Get it while it's hot!

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Tape is not dead
Joe Pfeiffer | 22 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

When I first started working with NetBackup I got to work with a great team of NetBackup engineers on the Media Server team.  These guys write a lot of the code that moves data through a NetBackup Media Server that interacts with tape and disk devices which is a pretty important role in the overall products since it is what touches the data and puts it where it belongs.  They have been involved in reviewing, modifying and implementing the industry standards (the T10 SCSI specification) and honestly are some of the smartest guys I know.  Except for when Keith spilled coffee inside our IBM TS3500 (still works!).

 

Sometimes they take heat since everyone is talking about disk and not tape these days.  Well tape is not dead and here is a few reasons why:

 

  • Tape is well established, portable, encryptable and relatively low cost.

 

  • Tape is "green" when compared with disk since it...
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NetBackup, OpenStorage and Quantum
TimBurlowski | 22 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

I recently had the chance to interview Steve Whitner from Quantum. This is the third in a series of interviews with our Open Storage partners.  On January 27, 2009, Quantum announced the refresh for their DXi7500 Express and DXi7500 Enterprise both of which support the NetBackup Open Storage API. Steve Whitner works as a Product Marketing Manager for DXi and related disk products. Steve is an industry veteran working at ADIC then Quantum for over ten years.

 

Q) I'm interviewing you specifically about the OpenStorage program. You will be among the first few vendors set to release an OpenStorage solution. From your perspective what is the problem the OpenStorage program is trying to solve in the backup and recovery workflow?

 

A) Our customer requirements for backups have changed over the years. Today they need to write and restore data quickly while retaining the data for longer periods of time, but with minimal space, power & cooling...

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Reading Alternatives
TimBurlowski | 22 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Scott Waterhouse who writes at the “Backup Blog” posted a good note about an important and often ignored setting for NetBackup media servers. He references this in relation to EDL, the disk library which has an embedded NetBackup media server, although it is a useful tip for many other circumstances . He points out the need to make sure that you set up NetBackup correctly so that when you duplicate tapes or images it doesn’t require the data to traverse your IP network and slow your duplication down significantly. You do this by correctly setting the alternate read server for your duplication which you can do for a Disk Staging Storage Unit, in Vault or in a Storage Life Cycle policy.

Nice work Scott.

Tim Burlowski
Technical Product Manager

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My Symantec OpenStorage (OST) “A-HA moment”
Mayur Dewaikar | 22 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

A few months back, I was riding in my colleague’s car and his iPOD interface to the car caught my eye. His car did not have a “native iPOD adapter” and so he had bought this aftermarket device that plugged into his iPOD and allowed him to control the iPOD directly from his car’s audio controls. He said “it is like Symantec OpenStorage (OST). Just as OST allows NetBackup to control appliances intelligently, this device allows your car to control the iPOD more efficiently”. His analogy was simple and yet so powerful. This discussion was my OST “A-HA moment” and got me intrigued.

 

 As I took on a more active role in NetBackup disk offerings in the months that followed, I learned more about OST and realized how powerful the concept was.  In the past, there have been several misconceptions around OST. Many have thought it to be Symantec’s attempt to kill the VTL...

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