Story of Low Disk Space: You have bought a new setup which is having 1 master and 100 more clients. All VERITAS and tape library configurations were done. With a big gulp of air you are initiating full backup for all clients and a green dressed runni...
Recently, a large provider of health insurance almost gave up on NetBackup as its disaster recovery solution-of-choice. But the vigilant support of Symantec technical specialists and engineers helped restore the company’s confidence in NetBackup disa...
Data growth rates of 30% to 50% per year are straining the network and storage capacities of organizations, a phenomenon that is compounded by the large amount of duplicate backup data routinely stored. This exacerbates the time and effort required t...
George Winter, our resident VMware guru, recently revised one of his best practices guides for backing up VMware with NetBackup. If you've got VMware, this is a highly recommended read that frames the argument in terms of good ways, better ways, best...
Introduction NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM) was introduced with Veritas NetBackup 6.0. It is a core component of the product providing advanced operational monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and reporting. Designed to support NetBackup admini...
1.0 Introduction The data protection system must be regarded as a ‘mission critical’ element of any modern data center. The design of any data protection system must, as far as possible, eliminate single points of failure so that data can be recover...
Abstract Veritas NetBackup™ 6.5 introduces two new features, Data Classifications and Storage Lifecycle Policies, that are intended to simplify the way in which backed-up data is organized. This paper looks at how these features relate to recovery s...
Executive overview VMware virtual infrastructure software is used by enterprises large and small to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their IT operations. Considered by Gartner to be a “megatrend,” VMware software is making its way i...
1. Goal of this Paper This paper sets out to be informative and educational in describing a number of solutions for protecting and recovering Microsoft Exchange installations. The challenges associated with protecting an Exchange environment, as wel...
Multi-national support An international financial organization failed to restore critical files at its London facility using NetBackup 6.0 and called Symantec U.K. frontline support for help. After a number of unsuccessful attempts to restore the da...
One of the questions NetBackup customers ask is how to back up VMware environments using NetBackup. There are two ways to do this: 1) Install a NetBackup or PureDisk Client inside each virtual machine or on the ESX Service Console. You might want...
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