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...
Don’t you worry. Be happy. I’ve been down this road before. You have inherited an old lab or an older production environment with NetBackup 4.5 installed and running. You would like to upgrade NetBackup but unfortunately the SunOS and NT clients are ...
Server virtualization is quickly becoming a standard technology in many data centers today. While VMware augments hardware utilization significantly through the use of server virtualization, VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure (ESX) 3 also introduces new...
Introduction to protecting Microsoft® applications Companies today face the ever-increasing challenge of managing the explosive growth of valuable data. Symantec Backup Exec™ 12.5 for Windows Servers is the gold standard in Windows® data protection, ...
Executive Summary Symantec Backup Exec™ for Windows® Servers is a comprehensive backup and recovery solution that protects a wide range of data resources, from file systems to popular databases. Symantec Online Storage enhances Backup Exec by provid...
The inconvenient truth about data backups Backups are not a glamorous, high-profile task in any business. In a small or mid-sized business, where money and staff time are at a premium, there is always something more pressing to do than to work on ba...
Data management landscape Many organizations are struggling with the massive changes in data storage requirements that have transpired over the last decade. The almost exponential growth of business-critical data from email, e-commerce, and electron...
1 SUMMARY PureDisk 6.1 MP1A introduces the Export to NetBackup feature. This paper explains how to use this feature. I will give a detailed description on how to demonstrate this feature using a VMware environment. The download locations for ever...
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...
The challenge was this: Some organizations were requiring as many as four or five attempts to upgrade to NetBackup 6.0 successfully. Why? Dan, a NetBackup tech support specialist at Symantec, pondered that question as he worked with one of them, a l...
If you speak German, you can call Symantec Enterprise Support Services and within minutes, you'll hear "Was ist los?" ("What’s the problem?") Finding a German-speaking storage system—that’s a little harder. Backup jobs were crashing—but no one knew w...
A communications company was using Veritas NetBackup to protect a large and vital database. However, the database failed in production, so the company's IT administrator needed to restore it. Since there wasn't enough space to restore the database to...
One to two failures a week A telecommunications company was using Veritas NetBackup Storage Migrator to automatically save files to tape and then remove them from disk, minimizing disk space usage. Because the data backed up to tape included telephon...
After upgrading to NetBackup 6.5, a customer began to notice that his backup disk was filling up too quickly and backup jobs were failing. The customer contacted Symantec tech support because he thought the problem was a result of the upgrade. After...
This is about a federal agency—one of the biggest—that faced big IT problems. A 12-million-dollar product implementation ground to a halt and 22 problem reports were opened within two weeks. Then within those same two weeks, all 22 problems were solv...
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