Which DR Strategy is More Efficient: AIR or Sealed Store?
Providing a sound disaster recovery (DR) strategy is important for any company to avoid the risk of downtime and lost $$$. Smart businesses usually have some sort of mirroring, replication or clustering technology in place to keep mission critical applications and tier 1 servers up and running and always available. But what about DR for the customer’s backup infrastructure?
Symantec e-Campus for Technical Product Training is free for all!
Functional IT professionals value technical training. Whether you are new to the industry and looking to start from the basics, someone who has experience in a competing solution and switching to Symantec solution or someone trying to evaluate a solution that is best suited for company business needs, a technical architect is comfortable to make an informed decision if he/she can actually get technical information easily. He/she may not be interested in a sales pitch; the appetite there is really for the true technical capabilities and operations. Unlike some vendors in the market who hide even product documentation unless you have already bought the product, Symantec had always made it available online. There is nothing to hide from the public when most products are already leaders in the market. Now, Symantec is taking this approach to the next level. How about making some of the technical training online? Better yet, how about making it free for all? If you didn’t know about this yet, take a moment to visit Symantec e-Campus As we are in Netting out NetBackup blog, let me give you some samples of what is in store for NetBackup 7.6 ▪New in NBU 7.6: Intro to NBU 7.6 (1 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: Accelerator for VMware (2 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: Instant Recovery for VMware (3 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: vCloud Director Integration (4 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: NBU Plug-in for vCenter (5 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: BMR Physical-to-Virtual Conversion (6 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: Miscellaneous VMware-related Enhancements (7 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Virtualization: Support for Hyper-V 2012 (8 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Replication Director: RD for VMware (9 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Replication Director: RD for VMWare – MS-Exchange (10 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Replication Director: RD for VMWare – MS-SQL Server (11 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Replication Director: RD VSS Changes and SAN Support (12 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Replication Director: RD Support for Oracle (13 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Policies and SLPs: Oracle Policy Improvements (14 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Policies and SLPs: SLP Windows and Other Enhancements (15 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Policies and SLPs: SLP Parameters (16 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Policies and SLPs: Targeted Auto Image Replication (17 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: OpsCenter: Improved User Experience (18 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: OpsCenter: Embedded Authentication Broker (19 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: OpsCenter: Integrated Active Director Groups (20 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: OpsCenter: Enhanced NBU and Appliance Awareness (21 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Deduplication: Media Server Deduplication Enhancements (22 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Supportability: Logging Assistant and Support Utility Enhancements (23 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Miscellaneous: Legal Search and Hold Enhancements (24 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Miscellaneous: NBU Catalog Improvements (25 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Miscellaneous: NDMP Wildcard Support (26 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Miscellaneous: Client-Direct Restores (27 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Platforms: MS-SQL 2012 Server Support (28 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Platforms: Windows 8 and Windows 2012 Server Support (29 of 30) ▪New in NBU 7.6: Platforms: Solaris 11 Support Enhancements (30 of 30) ▪Upgrading to NBU 7.6: Upgrading to NBU 7.6 – an Introduction (1 of 4) ▪Upgrading to NBU 7.6: Upgrading to NBU 7.6 (2 of 4) ▪Upgrading to NBU 7.6: Upgrading OpsCenter (3 of 4) ▪Upgrading to NBU 7.6: Upgrading NBU Search (4 of 4) Also there are blue prints available to assist you with everyday tasks ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for VMware (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Accelerator for VMware (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for VMware Instant Recovery (IRV) (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Accelerator (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for AIR (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Hyper-V (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Decommissioning NetBackup Appliance (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Oracle (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Replication Director (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for Exchange (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for SharePoint (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for SQL (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for configuring Appliance (Job Aid in PDF format) ▪NBU 7.6 Blueprint for SAN Client (Job Aid in PDF format) Enjoy! Don’t forget, the eCampus have training for many Symantec products and solutions.
DR of the Living Dead
With the one-two punch of an earthquake in the Mid-Atlantic US followed closely by a hurricane potentially hitting the same region, Disaster Recovery is probably a popular discussion right now in the Washington DC area. Of course Business Continuity professionals write contingency plans for all types of disasters, not just ones caused by nature. Don’t you want to ask God, or MLookout NDMP backup, with snapshots your birthdays are numbered!
In case you didn’t know… NDMP was conceived in 1995 and celebrates its 17 th birthday this year. In dog years that would make it 119 years old. In tech years, more like 170 years, which is probably a light estimate. And while NDMP may be getting long in the tooth, data growth is causing NDMP backups to age even faster. I mean depending
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 Analytics. OpsCenter 7.1 offers a number of new reports in the already robust reporting set.
NetBackup 7.5.0.1 (NetBackup 7.5 Maintenance Release 1) is now available!
I'm very pleased to announce that the first Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available! NetBackup 7.5.0.1 has been released in response to the feedback received during NetBackup 7.5 First Availability program. This release contains selective critical fixes to:
