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Jim_MD · 01-11-2020

I scrubbed up an old excel calcutor that some people might find interesting when dealing with deduplication for storage and data transmission between storage devices including cloud(s).Other caculators are avaliable that are backup/recovery centic an...

Jim_MD · 09-10-2019

The charts in the PDF are theortetical it would be interesting to see if others are getting results like these?From what I can see the ability to deupe data can have a significant impact on storage and transmission.

Jim_MD · 10-17-2019

As others said less pools the better. Another reason is every pool has max number of partially filled tapes attribute. If you have a small number tape drives I tend to do "number of drives + 1". For this to be really effective you need to keep number...

Jim_MD · 10-14-2019

MS replied - It confirmed that you can have only one VSS shadow copy per drive be run at any one time. This is for Win 2008, I assume it applies to later versions.----- MS Reply -----------------How many different volumes can have snapshots at the ...

Jim_MD · 10-12-2019

As part of offsite rotation I would consider auto suspending tapes. Why use: If you have to recall a tape from offisite for a restore there is the potential of NBU using it for a backup. Suspending a tape stops this happening. I don't like using the...

Jim_MD · 10-11-2019

My understanding NBU and other managment tools should comply with internet standard RFC4343 (and others) all DNS names (hostnames) are case insenesitve. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4343One place I used to work for I tagged windows by using U...

Jim_MD · 10-11-2019

I saw that MS docs and others...on one I made a comment in that no where does it say what is the max concurrent shadow copies that can be processed. MS replied quickly with a .....not sure but I will find out from others....a bit strange. I thought...

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Dedupe storage/comms calculator: useful - maybe?

What you can store and transmit with deduplication seems to very sensitive to deduplication rates.

Re: Some Tapes not getting utlised on certain volume pools

Re: VSS blocks the launch of backup jobs in NBU 8.1

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Re: VSS blocks the launch of backup jobs in NBU 8.1