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Have You Outgrown Your Symantec NetBackup Domain?

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.

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Mon, Dec 22, 2014
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Symantec NetBackup v7.6: 8 Tips to Help Manage Storage Lifecycle Policies

The addition of Storage Lifecycle Policies (SLP’s) in Symantec NetBackup 7.6 has provided backup administrators with a very effective tool for managing backup/snapshot, image, duplication, and replication.

While SLP’s simplify these tasks, careful consideration is required when you’re monitoring and managing the policies and the components utilized in your NetBackup environment.

The SLP administration window we all know and love, shown below, is a great tool for managing SLP’s. But there are other things you should consider to help manage your SLP’s.


To help manage your SLP’s and make sure they’re optimized, please consider these (8) additional configuration tips. 

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Wed, Dec 03, 2014
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VMworld 2014 Keynote: VMware's Evolution to the Cloud



Greeting From #VMWorld

 
VMware kicked off their annual VMworld Conference with the usual showmanship, to more than 22,000 attendees, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. VMware’s focus remains unchanged and they will continue to be bringing their vision of the Software Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud (now called AIR) and End User Computing to fruition over the next year. For certain there have been many enhancements over the last 12 months to VMware’s offerings to further their goal of being the common platform for everything.
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Tue, Aug 26, 2014
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Impressions from Symantec Vision 2014

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:

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Fri, May 30, 2014
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NetBackup 7.6.0.1 – Lessons Learned

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:  

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Mon, Mar 03, 2014
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Reasons to Consider NetBackup 7.5

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:   

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Tue, Jan 15, 2013
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Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 – Should You Upgrade?

Author: Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant

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Thu, Aug 25, 2011
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Symantec World Sales & Marketing Conference 2011: Fast. Forward

Author:   Jeff Choinski, Consultant

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Fri, Jul 15, 2011
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