I've recently become utterly addicted to Twitter (thank you Tim).  It's really interesting to watch what people have on their minds and every once in awhile I search for the term "NetBackup" to see if anyone is posting tweets about the product.  A few days ago I came across this: “Solaris with zoned servers and NetBackup 34 minutes from bare metal to Restored, with running oracle.”http://twitter.com/lthomas987/statuses/795385028 Now I know I am a giant nerd for searching for my own company/product on Twitter (kind of like Googling your own name) but I felt warm and fuzzy to know that our product got somebody back up and running in 34 minutes.  If you don't know what Twitter is, check out thisand I apoligize in advance if you get addicted (again, thank you Tim).

Message Edited by Tyler Carter on 05-01-2008 09:40 AM

Message Edited by Tyler Carter on 05-01-2008 09:41 AM

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...

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about ways that Backup Reporter can report on things in the future.  There are lots of ways to do forecasting but one of the best ways to look in to the future has to do with backup media retention.  As you know when NetBackup does a backup it stores a date and time that the backup will expire.  When the backup is expired that space on disk or tape is available to be written to again.  Setting retention levels is a common way to decide how far back you can restore data but as the environment you are protecting grows so does the amount you need to spend on disk or tape to keep up.  At some point someone usually says "hey we're spending too much on tapes (or disk space)".  Rather than spending money on buying more perhaps we can see what will become available or expired in the future and more accurately predict what can be reused.  Let’s say by way of example that you do...