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Netting Out NetBackup

Meet the NetBackup Guy
Joe Pfeiffer | 27 Feb 2009 | 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 | 19 Feb 2009 | 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 | 18 Feb 2009 | 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 | 18 Feb 2009 | 4 comments

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NetBackup 6.5.3.1 and 6.0 MP7S Are Now Available
Joe Pfeiffer | 17 Feb 2009 | 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 | 05 Feb 2009 | 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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