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SAN backup and recovery
Moving data can complicate your backup efforts. In this tip, you’ll learn backup goals for SAN environments and backup methods to achieve those goals.
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The value of VMware’s Changed Block Tracking (CBT)
VMware’s Changed Block Tracking is an important part of VMware’s efforts to simplify and improve the VMware virtual machine backup process.
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Resolving five Symantec NetBackup error messages
In this tip, Microsoft expert Brien M. Posey discusses five common Symantec NetBackup error messages and offers a solution for each.
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Active Directory restores: Restoring deleted objects
Brien Posey shows how to perform an Active Directory restore using authoritative and non-authoritative techniques.
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Cloud backups offer benefits, present challenges
The idea of supplementing your physical servers with cloud backups is an appealing one. But there are issues you’ll need to consider.
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Performing a Microsoft IIS backup
This tip offers information about how to perform a Microsoft IIS backup.
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Five Microsoft DPM errors and how to prevent them
Microsoft DPM can produce a wide variety of errors. This article discusses how to solve five common errors that you are likely to encounter.
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Top five data dedupe tips of 2011
Data dedupe has gone mainstream and is widely deployed by organizations to reduce backup data. Check out our top five data dedupe tips of the year.
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Top five tape archiving tips
For many organizations, tape is a viable, cost-effective option for archiving. Check out our five favorite tips from the past year on tape archiving.
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Vendors line up to deliver backup appliances
When choosing a backup appliance, it is important to evaluate the functionality you need now, and what you may need going forward.
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Transitioning from tape to disk backup
This tip offers a step-by-step approach for making the switch from tape to a disk backup appliance.
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Top five virtual backup tips
The editors of SearchDataBackup.com have been closely following the virtual server backup market. Here are our top 5 virtual backup tips.
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Will cloud data protection kill tape?
Disk and tape can be used in concert to meet your data protection requirements. Find out why tape may have a second life with data protection in the cloud.
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Keep application integrity in Microsoft Hyper-V backup
When conducting a Microsoft Hyper-V backup, steps need to be taken to promote application integrity and prevent corruption of data.
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Are traditional backup processes dead?
Pundits have been predicting the death of traditional backup processes for a long time. Find out why in Tony Asaro's latest column.
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Hyper-V backup best practices
In this tip, learn about Hyper-V backup best practices, as well as the differences between hypervisor backup vs. VM backup.
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The importance of Symantec's OST
Learn about why Symantec's OpenStorage Technology (OST) and its role in backup and recovery today.
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Backing up a Windows Server 2008 group policy
While a Windows Server 2008 group policy is copied automatically, it is easier to manage when you make your own group policy-specific backup.
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Virtual machine backup software checklist
With this checklist, learn how to determine what features and functions you need in virtual machine backup software.
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Traditional apps vs. VM backup software
In this tip on backing up VMs, learn about the pros and cons of traditional backup software vs. VM backup software.
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Cloud backup services succeed from managing data
Independent backup and disaster recovery expert Jon Toigo discusses the importance of data management and testing for cloud backup services.
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Four things to know about Hyper-V backups
In this tip, independent backup expert Brien Posey outlines four things you need to know about Microsoft Hyper-V backups to avoid common pitfalls.
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Deduplication and data lifecycle management
Independent backup expert Brien Posey offers information about how data deduplication impacts data lifecycle management in this tip.
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Integrating e-discovery process with traditional backup
Independent backup expert Brien Posey looks at how the e-discovery process and traditional backup software products have become more integrated today.