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10 basic steps for better backup
by Jim Damoulakis
The most evident common denominator in well-functioning backup infrastructures is effective process and control. This checklist highlights 10 areas you should focus on to build a better backup practice. |
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How disk has changed backup
by W. Curtis Preston
Inexpensive disk has spawned a variety of disk-based backup alternatives. But with more choices comes greater complexity compared to the days when you simply had to choose a backup application and tape library. Backup guru W. Curtis Preston explains the advantages of using disk for backup, including virtual tape libraries and disk-as-disk backup targets, and discusses the pros and cons of alternative disk-based backup methods. |
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Any-point-in-time backups
by Brad O'Neill
Continuous data protection captures changes at a file- or block-level as they happen, and provides running recovery journals for all historical data states. This shifts data protection to a more flexible any-point-in-time framework. |
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Sizing up VTLs
by Alex Gorbansky
Virtual tape libraries present disk as tape, so backup apps can perform backups as usual, regardless of the physical backup infrastructure. Learn about hardware and software VTLs, the benefits of each and how they might fit into your backup operation. |
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Use mainframes for backups
by Gary Brown
You can put that big iron sitting in your data center to better use by using it to back up open-systems data, too. The net effect is a streamlined backup and disaster recovery operation. |
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Make tape libraries work with all platforms
by Mike Drapeau and Gary Brown
If tape libraries could share IT resources and data across all processing platforms, data center complexity and cost could be dramatically reduced. |
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