Disk-based data backup and tape storage based recovery-Get best out of your tape drives.
Respected forum members, This is my first ever thread. I have tried to make it as informative as possible.This blog is inspired by Curtis Preston's blog .http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/Tape-backup-best-practices-How-to-improve-tape-storage-performance but not copy/paste job.I have used only headings from that article.
Storage Server Configuration Wizard: RDSM has encountered an STS error: ioctl failed (2060017)
In playing a bit with Media server deduplication in NetBackup 7.0 GA, I have run into an issue where the Storage Server Configuration Wizard comes up with an error during the configuration phase, on Windows: database system error. RDSM has encountered an STS error: ioctl failed (2060017)
The Next Big Thing is Already Here
We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space. One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec.
Having fun with /Storage migration to new array
Recently I had all 3 of my PureDisk environments giving me storage problems due to internal/external causes. First one was relatively simple, it's a 6.2.2 all-in-one node and it ran out of disk space for /Storage - 95% full. The storage array was not a SAN but a dedicated one.
