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cpreston
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 Forum: Symantec Backup Exec Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:20 am Subject: Tech Field Day Live Stream from Symantec Headquarters
I am here at Symantec Headquarters for Tech Field Day, where Symantec Execs will be briefing (and be drilled by) 14 bloggers including myself and 13 others. We're going to talk about a number of Syman ...
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cpreston
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Forum: Symantec NetBackup Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:18 am Subject: Tech Field Day Live Stream from Symantec Headquarters
I am here at Symantec Headquarters for Tech Field Day, where Symantec Execs will be briefing (and be drilled by) 14 bloggers including myself and 13 others. We're going to talk about a number of Syma ...
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cpreston
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Forum: General Topics Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:05 pm Subject: How do you Store Backup Selection data?
And I don't think you answered his question either.
As to the OP, the big boys tend to use a network backup product. There are literally dozens of them on the market. Not sure exactly what you' ...
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cpreston
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Forum: Symantec NetBackup Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:03 pm Subject: Netbackup 7 compression
Standard compression ratio rules apply. Your mileage may vary, but it's typically going to be 1.5:1 to 2:1 or so.
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cpreston
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Forum: General Topics Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 8:52 am Subject: unknown backup software
If you are on a Unix box you can use DD to read the first few bytes off the tape, then use the file command to try and identify the blocks. You want to get a robust magic file before doing that. htt ...
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cpreston
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Forum: General Topics Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:26 pm Subject: Alter the look of viewed messages
Nope Johat, you're right. The problem is how we've connected Joomla (the software that runs backupcentral.com) and phpbb (the software that runs the forums). If you click on your phpbb profile, it j ...
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cpreston
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Forum: General Topics Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 3:25 pm Subject: What is client-side and server-side deduplication ?
Search for source dedupe and target dedupe on backupcentral.com. There are a bunch of articles.
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cpreston
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Forum: Rdiff-Backup Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:37 pm Subject: SpecialFileError ... Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long
Sorry about that previous SPAM post. I pushed the wrong button. The user has been banned on this end.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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cpreston
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Forum: Symantec NetBackup Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:09 pm Subject: symantec netbackup 7.0 books
<quote>hi. i am a new baby to netbackup please anyone suggest me some books to gain complete knowledge on netbackup and to get certified also, please don't tell me that symantec books vol1,vol2 ...
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cpreston
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Forum: IBM TSM Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:19 pm Subject: Data Domain: Data Domain, and SQL-Backtrack with Sybase data
The last time I checked <10% of DD customers use the VTL option. I'm
willing to bet that 60-80% of those are TSM customers. The TSM folks I've
talked to seem to prefer using VTL over file-type ...
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cpreston
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Forum: IBM TSM Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:31 am Subject: Data Domain: Data Domain, and SQL-Backtrack with Sybase data
This is a common problem with deduplication, and someone at EMC should have
told you this before you bought.
You should not/cannot run compression on your backups before they get to the
dedupe sy ...
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cpreston
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Forum: IBM TSM Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:41 pm Subject: NBU guy in TSM shop and I need help
Hey ego,
You posted to a TSM list with a "TSM question." It seemed to me that people were trying their best to help, despite you not using TSM-specific terminology or giving a lot of det ...
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cpreston
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Forum: Symantec NetBackup Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 7:58 am Subject: Can't get nbu to use drives, and cant 'up' the drives.
>Interesting - I see this response but not what it is responding too.
>Did something not make to the mailing list from BackupCentral?
It's a side effect of my human SPAM filter. The first ...
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cpreston
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Forum: BackupPC Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:22 pm Subject: My backup method across VPN
@Saturn,
LeeRain was just trying to spam this and other lists. Ignore him. He's been banned.
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cpreston
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Forum: General Topics Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 12:31 am Subject: Tool/utility/worksheet to estimate required # of tapes
I don't know of any tool that's ready to go to do what you want, but I'd be happy to help you construct such a tool on a billable basis.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:58 PM, roose <back ...
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