Meeting with clients, I’m hearing a lot of folks complaining about two common problems: First - Backups are taking far too long to complete. Second – Recovering a single file is a long, painstaking process.
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How do you know if your NetBackup Domain has become too large?
When NetBackup Domains grow beyond Symantec best practices guidelines, performance and manageability can begin to degrade. During my 15 years as a NetBackup backup engineer, I’ve found that the following 5 criteria are worth considering:
Catalog size - As the catalog grows, the time required to protect it can become excessive. The catalog backup is a database backup. The synchronization checkpoints and locking required for other NetBackup jobs will cause extra processing time.
Mon, Dec 22, 2014
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It happens all the time – a customer has a problem that’s tough to solve. I was recently asked how to best protect a virtual environment – stretched between two data centers. The customer wanted all administration through vCenter with instant recovery and the ability to meet stringent RPOs and RTOs. And the catch – they wanted the backed up data to be stored on a different vendor’s array utilizing a different protocol - NFS instead of Fibre Channel (FC) block storage.
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By Peter Wright, Senior Consultant
Symantec Vision 2014 was recently held in Las Vegas. This showcase for Symantec customers and partners delivered content through breakout sessions and labs that highlighted new products and features. One key area of focus surrounded NetBackup's future plans including self-service, dynamic tuning, user experiences, and interfacing with the cloud. Below are a few noted highlights:
Fri, May 30, 2014
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Symantec has recently released their next version of NetBackup with 7.6.0.1. Daymark has deployed NetBackup 7.6.0.1 in several customer environments. Our technical consultants have found the product to be stable with a myriad of added features and improvements. Here are few to note:
Mon, Mar 03, 2014
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By Matthew Brady, Daymark Consultant
How easily can you restore your data from cloud? What is your provider doing to protect your data once it has been stored in the cloud? Can you backup or restore your data at any time? These questions address availability.
Wed, Sep 18, 2013
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By Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant/Data Protection Practice Lead
Whether you’re already using Symantec NetBackup or you’re considering it as a backup solution, we think NetBackup 7.5 is worth a close look. Daymark has deployed NetBackup 7.5 in several customer environments. Our technical consultants have found the product to be stable with dramatically increased backup speeds, but that’s not all. Here are 7 feature enhancements we think are worth checking out:
Tue, Jan 15, 2013
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Author: Bruce Hall, Director of Technology
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You had to be living ‘off-grid’ this week if you didn’t hear about the widespread problems that resulted from the millions of consumers trying to download Apple’s new iCloud sharing and data protection service… come on you know you contributed to that problem, I know I was.
Fri, Oct 14, 2011
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Author: Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant
Thu, Aug 25, 2011
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Author: Jeff Choinski, Consultant
Fri, Jul 15, 2011
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