Compression - A short explanation
Every now and then, there would be an aggrieved user who feels that he was not given the full measure by his tape. For example, for LTO3 tapes, the label on the box specifies 400GB and he is not getting anything close to this. To add to the confusion, LTO tapes are often marketed with 2 capacities, e.g., LTO3 would be marketed as 800GB/400GB. What do all these numbers mean?Must the Monday's backup be on the Monday tape?
Often,there will be users who would complain that BE upset their carefully thought out tape naming scheme by using a tape not intended for that backup. For example, a daily backup job taking a tape from the weekly media set or Monday's backup data was written onto Tuesday's tape. This is by design. To complete the backup, BE will use any over-w
Why are my backups so slow?
One of the most frustrating and common problems with backups is troubleshooting poor performance. A simple concept like backing up a file, unfortunately, touches almost all aspects of your network and server infrastructure - everything from the source server's OS to the tape library.
Backup Exec vs NetBackup (Comparison of Legends)
Hi Connect, It has been in discussion since long, which would be best for environment. Choice between legends have been concern of corporates. Attached are comparison sheet for Backup exec and NetBackup. Have outlined feature sets which i've worked till far and as per Product documentations. Feel free to comment for your views to improve the same.
Completing Troublesome Restore & Catalog Jobs in Backup Exec
Often times when we are trying to restore extremely old data in Backup Exec we encounter all sorts of problems. The causes can vary from a corrupt database or catalogs to media label conflicts within the catalog. Common symptoms are continuously failing catalog jobs and restores failing with inconsistent media errors.
