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The DCIG Blog Features CDP
Joe Pfeiffer | 18 Sep 2009 | 0 comments

Kristine and I here at Symantec spoke with Jerome of DCIG blogging fame a few weeks ago.  It was a good discussion and he turned around and decided to blog about it on his DCIG blog.  The main points we agreed on during our conversations?   CDP is in a very different place than it was a few years ago and it NEEDS to be integrated in to an existing backup product.  Read the rest here and if you're really excited check out NetBackup RealTime.

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Recovery Videos
Joe Pfeiffer | 29 Jul 2009 | 1 comment

 Thought these were fun.  Yes they are propaganda but it's a good way to describe to a non-IT person what Symantec (or you) do with infrastructure software.

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Backup at Home
Joe Pfeiffer | 18 Jul 2009 | 0 comments

 I really like comparing personal backup to enterprise backup. When I first started working in the world of storage my head was swimming with tape drives, storage arrays and the ridiculous number of acronyms our industry loves to use. I didn't even back things up at home. So to dive in to my new job I went out and built a RedHat machine and installed the NetBackup 5.1 beta so I could start protecting my other 2 machines. Probably over kill but it let me play around and learn the product. Eventually I eased up and started using Norton 360 with a portable hard drive. This was way more simple to use and I've actually had it save me a couple of times recently when I was trying out the Windows 7 beta's and deleted the wrong partition (ops, no more 500GB media drive). I slept a little better at night knowing that I had a second copy of my data. And growing up in the digital age, I don't have a single picture, video or music file that is not on a machine.

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Time vs. Data
Joe Pfeiffer | 09 Jul 2009 | 0 comments

 Yesterday I was talking with a Symantec user about the decisions you have to make when picking how to recover from a failure.  Like most companies they had a whole slew of options from clustering and high-availability, to replication, snapshots and tape.  Most people we talk with have some idea of the amount of time they can tolerate to get back up from a failure and the amount of data they are willing to lose but these two things (time and data lost) are more related than most people think and this user especially understood that...particularly when it comes to applications.  It really is one of the biggest problems applications have when you try to back them up.   They have to be stopped or paused since some data may be in memory or logs that haven't been fully written to disk.  So most backup apps have a "hot backup" mode or quiesce (I can never spell that word) that lets you flush the application out so it can be backed up in a known...

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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 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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