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stu52 · 01-05-2011

I'm trying to get a feel for what others are doing with their SharePoint backups. I've been reading about issues with SharePoint backups that have been resolved and I think that the majority of the backups have been farm-level backups using the back...

stu52 · 10-27-2009

Hi, I would like to know if anyone can share their experience in backing up SharePoint 2007 using NetBackup 6.5.4. I would really like to know what time frames have been encountered in backing up large (over 1TB) SQL databases in the SharePoint env...

stu52 · 10-04-2011

Teiva-boy The "garbage collection" or "cleaning" that you mention above is not something that will eliminate the bit-rot problem. Bit rot is something that will occur with any spinning media (disk). Furthermore, other vendors of deduplication devic...

stu52 · 09-14-2011

It has to do with the physics of recording magnetic data. See W. Curtis Preston's article on this here: http://backupcentral.com/mr-backup-blog-mainmenu-47/13-mr-backup-blog/380-tape-more-reliable-than-disk-for-long-term-storage.html This is why ta...

stu52 · 08-17-2011

Well, all I can say is this. I am working at a company where there are several sites, but the main site does just over 500TB/month and it is behind in the replication to one of the other sites. The problem is that the current system was undersized....

stu52 · 08-15-2011

@rob, there's a reason why people use a DataDomain over JBOD....it's called deduplication. But, if you are going to use that at your primary and remote site you have to be aware of the expense. And, in CraigV's case, it sounds like the customer is ...

stu52 · 08-12-2011

Craig, OK....so you want to go "tapeless" and use DataDomain? That would mean paying double for the disk (one at your primary site and again at your remote replication destination) PLUS paying for a WAN link that is big enough to handle the traffic ...

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SharePoint 2007 & NBU - please share your stories.

DD garbage collection not what you think...

Disk will lose data over time ...

DataDomain replication good for some things

DD is not JBOD

pay double for disk...