Tape Backup

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iSCSI for TL-Series Tape Libraries by Dell, Inc.
has introduced an iSCSI-to-SAS bridge card for the TL-series of tape libraries. This allows a customer to directly attach a tape backup target to their iSCSI 1Gb Ethernet SAN with little to no degradation in transfer speed. This white paper explores this setup and...
Thinking Beyond Tape: The Case Against Tape Backup by Double-Take Software
explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a backup strategy based only on tape backup. When recoverability matters, depend on Double-Take Software to dynamically move, protect, and recover your critical applications...
Tipcast: Optimizing Tape Backup Systems by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Many organizations still rely on tape instead of disks for their backup needs. As the amount of incoming data increases actions need to be taken to optimize and squeeze...
Understanding the Role and Application of Remote Server Backup Technologies by Iron Mountain Digital
is crucial, more companies are looking to disk-based backup technologies to complement their tape solutions. Tape backup is inexpensive, very scalable via automation, and can be easily transported and secured off-site. Disk-based backup can...
Podcast: Changing the Rules of Backup: Go Beyond Virtual Tape Library for Accelerating Your Backup by FalconStor Software
For most IT organizations, traditional server backup remains the primary means of protecting data. And despite decades of technology development in this area, challenges remain. This...
Victaulic Speeds Backup and Restores, Cuts Capacity with SEPATON VTL and Data Deduplication by SEPATON
Facing exponential data growth and lengthening backup times, Victaulic Company's tape backup systems could no longer provide the performance or capacity they needed for efficient data protection. For a cost comparable to...
Enhancing Disk-to-Disk Backup with Data Deduplication by FalconStor Software
Data deduplication improves efficiency and saves money, exactly what is needed when IT budgets are tight. Backup is critical to protecting data and ensuring its recoverability. However, backup applications, by design, continuously create new...
HP StorageWorks tape and disk-to-disk data protection by Hewlett-Packard Company
and scalable--growing and adapting to your changing business demands. They come in a wide variety of choices, ranging from tape backup to multiple layers of online, nearline and offline protection. And the newer technologies--such as disk-to-disk backup, virtual tape...
Using Deduplication with Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape by Data Domain
This whitepaper describes how mainframe users can effectively switch from physical tape (or hybrid disk/tape) to a modern mainframe Virtual Tape solution with Data Domain deduplication storage. Mainframe IT managers...
The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
whitepaper describes five best practices for backup and long-term data protection and explores the aspects of disk and tape solutions that, when combined into a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution, provide the most robust answer to backup and archival for the data...
Webcast: Data Deduplication and Disk-to-Disk Backup Systems by Data Domain
technology to disk backup. Data de-duplication really changes the way backups are performed. For years, users have used tape backup because it was the only cost-effective option. Disk was too expensive to deploy in significant quantities.

The inherent flaws of...
Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based...
Moving to Disk-based Backup? Seven Key Questions to Ask by ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Backing up to disk instead of tape eliminates the hassles of tape, provides faster backups and restores, improves security and streamlines operations. Learn...
Interstate Hotels & Resorts Stays with SEPATON for Advanced Data Protection by SEPATON
When Interstate Hotels & Resorts' tape backup systems could no longer handle its growing volumes of financial data, their IT staff installed SEPATON S2100 virtual tape...
Building a Service-oriented Data Protection Strategy by Storage Decisions
size-fits-all strategy. Different data protection methods, ranging from WAN-based data replication and clustering to tape backup and restore, are available to provide the data recovery capability that a business process or application requires. Matching data...
ITS Group Consulting Offers "More 9's" and Killer RTO/RPO with Replay AppImage by AppAssure Software
44; availability, and disaster recovery capabilities that they continue to service.

ITS Group had been relying on tape backups to protect Exchange data but, as most of us know, tape backups fail 38% of the time. While consulting with a large financial...
FAQ Guide: Disk-based data backup and recovery for SMBs by i365, A Seagate Company
As storage capacity needs grow in SMBs, disk is increasingly being used as a backup storage target. In this FAQ, Executive Editor and Independent Backup Expert W. Curtis Preston, discusses the role of disk-based...
Essential Guide to Data Backup for SMBs by SearchSMBStorage.com
Data backup is still the No. 1 pain point for storage administrators. The tips in this guide will help you simplify your backup process and put...
Hitchcock Schools Protects SQL Servers and Data with Replay AppImage by AppAssure Software
data that resides on SQL servers. That would be a much bigger worry if it weren't for Replay AppImage. "I don't spend hours on tape backups and then worry about dirty tapes anymore," says Armacost. "Replay AppImage takes snapshots every 15 minutes and if a server...
IT Download: Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 by Symantec Corporation
is the gold standard in Windows data protection for physical and virtual systems, providing comprehensive disk and tape backup and recovery support for Windows-based environments. Continuous data protection and patent-pending Granular Recovery...
Using Tape Virtualization to Improve Backup Performance by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This paper provides a quick review of Sun Microsystems' tape virtualization solutions, identifying how their offerings can best be leveraged to produce an optimized backup...
Smart Move: Spend Less While Improving Data Protection by i365, A Seagate Company
Businesses today face a myriad of challenges in protecting their business-critical data. The reliance on data and information systems has created internal and external challenges for business owners and their IT staffs. One of the...
ESG Report: Data Deduplication Diversity: Evaluating Software- vs. Hardware-Based Approaches by CommVault Systems, Inc.
eliminates the redundancy typically seen in secondary storage processes. The use of deduplication will drive further backup-to-disk adoption and deliver associated performance and reliability benefits. Deduplication dramatically improves the value...
Protecting Server Data in Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) by Iron Mountain Digital
a framework for current methods of server data protection, and steps in evaluating an online disk-based server backup sol... Protecting critical information is becoming a growing business challenge as the amount of data continues to increase at...
VMware and Dell Solutions for Small to Medium Business: Ensuring Rapid, Reliable and Affordable Disaster Recovery by Dell and VMware
and addressing planned and unplanned downtime issues. Most SMBs have at least a basic level of data protection (such as tape backup), but backup and restore alone cannot deliver the rapid and reliable DR capabilities that organizations need. Affordable HA and DR...
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VTL 101: Integrating a virtual tape library into your backups By Rick Cook
virtual library. This helps manage your backups. "In a smaller business, you could have a dedicated [virtual] tape library for every tape backup job," Eicher says. That means no drive sharing on the tapes. "This isn't something that scales...
Jul 2, 2008
Controlling tape costs By Rick Cook
If you use tape as a data backup medium, the primary recurring cost is the cost of tapes. Although labor and...
Jun 10, 2008
How does content-addressed storage differ from backup? By Russ Fellows
storage devices was to allow users and applications to access archival data more quickly than was often available with data residing on tape media.

For random access, FCR storage is faster than tape, but slower than primary storage. As a...

Jul 16, 2008
Data Storage Resource Center
How to back up and restore a certificate store by Brien M. Posey
controller can usually take over until the failed server can be brought back online. But one type of server that is critical to backup is your enterprise certificate authority.

An enterprise certificate authority is responsible for issuing certificates...

Dec 1, 2008
How to evaluate and purchase a SAN by Martin Taylor, Converged Network Manager, Royal Horticultural Society
issues, you may need to look for a SAN that allows intelligent disk tiering and data migration. You will also need to consider the backup options available to safeguard your data and how quickly the system can be restored in a disaster recovery situation.

If the...

Nov 25, 2008
Data deduplication methods: Block-level versus byte-level dedupe by Lauren Whitehouse
granular inspection of data than block-level approaches, ensuring more accuracy, but it often requires more knowledge of the backup stream to do its job.

Block-level approaches

Block-level data deduplication segments data streams into blocks, inspecting...

Nov 24, 2008
Using Dump for Linux/Unix data backup by Rick Cook
s free, powerful, fast and, in spite of its drawbacks, is widely used to back up *nix systems. Dump is losing some ground to third-party backup software, but because of its advantages many users prefer it. Here are some of the major advantages and disadvantages of using...
Nov 17, 2008
Considerations when selecting a data storage VAR by Martha Young
maintenance? Is creative financing important to your company's ability to use the VAR? Are you seeking to upgrade your existing backup and archiving solutions?

Develop a list of criteria you want the VAR to meet in order to ensure a successful relationship. Be...

Nov 13, 2008