Backing up the Dolphins!
Today, MySQL powers some of the largest websites in the world. If you are storing production data in MySQL, having a formalized and tested MySQL backup strategy and implementation is crucial. I can't ...
Blog Articles
NetBackup 7.1 Features - Minor Enhancements - 2 of 2
Welcome to NetBackup 7.1! This series of blogs has provided information about the key features of NetBackup 7.1 and wraps up with a final look at the minor features including: LiveUpdate enhancements ...
NetBackup 7.1 Features - OpsCenter and OpsCenter Analytics Reporting Enhancements
Welcome to NetBackup 7.1! This series of blogs will provide additional information into the key features of NetBackup 7.1 continuing today with the changes and enhancements to OpsCenter and OpsCenter ...
NetBackup 7.1 is available!
I'm very pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of NetBackup 7.1! As you may have already read during the First Availability (FA), the key new features of NetBackup 7.1 include: Disaster Re...
NetBackup to Customers: "We're Listening!"
The most popular NetBackup session at the Symantec Vision user conference, by far, is Performance and Tuning. The organizers don’t wait to see the attendee preregistration surveys, they just go ahead ...
NetBackup in the New Year
2010 has been a good year for NetBackup. We launched the first hardware appliances with the NetBackup 5000 and 5200, launched our cloud storage program with Nirvanix and started integrating with Enter...
NetBackup 6.5.x Cloud Storage for Nirvanix
Just a quick post today. Back at the end of August we announced our first cloud vendor partnership with Nirvanix. Basically it is an OpenStorage plugin that lets you create Storage Units that point to...
Storage Lifecycle Policy Tricks and Tips
There is a new technote entitled "Best Practices for using Storage Lifecycle Policies in NetBackup 6.5.3 and 6.5.4". This essential document, authored by engineering, support and product management, d...
NoDirectSDR Registry entry for flashbackup / VCB backups
from last one year, I have seen lots of folks (with in and outside organization) asking me about NODirectSDR registry entry or I have suggested them to use it to resolve lots of problems with flashbac...
Time vs. Data
Yesterday I was talking with a Symantec user about the decisions you have to make when picking how to recover from a failure. Like most companies they had a whole slew of options from clustering and h...
