Let's have a frank, honest conversation about Backup Exec 2014... Greetings intrepid data center wranglers! Earlier this summer, Symantec released Backup Exec 2014. This release returned some of your ...
Welcome to the second installation of the DRT Dozen. 1) Another dirty secret of DR plans – too many of them ignore or underestimate the importance of security. A recent SANS Institute (www.sans.org) r...
Welcome to the first installation in a series of blogs that will detail 12 topics around disaster recovery technology – thus the DRT ;) These topics will cover industry trends, best practices, and rel...
Dear SSR Family Members It’s been a long time since I made my last post. I was waiting for the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1). It’s been 2 weeks since this was released. Hope you are finding this val...
Dear NetBackup Users, I came across an awesome story about how one company used NetBackup AIR to save them in a disaster recovery scenario. I was pretty impressed with how they used the technology, an...
Backups are the first stage to keep your business at safe side. If you lose your Data you lost your Business. It is the Insurance policy for your company. Think if you never leave insurance policy for...
Frequently there are posts on the connect site about protecting or recovering Backup Exec itself from a Disaster. Below procedure explains what to backup and how to recover Backup Exec. Background: Ev...
Avoiding an RGE (Resume Generating Event) Quick, is your resume current? If your company experiences a significant outage it may (unfortunately) need to be. As the saying goes, this may be an RGE. Eve...
At a recent meeting of NetBackup customers I heard some interesting comments on the topic of High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) that I would like to share, along with my thoughts on the...
Deduplication is certainly a hot topic! I have seen many great discussions about deduplication in many different forums. Many of the discussions center around technical specifications. Unfortunately, ...
