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Will the real data please stand up? A look at deduplication in the online backup world
Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a fair amount of momentum in the last few years! Most enterprise backup software vendors like Symantec (Veritas), EMC (Avamar) etc. support deduplication in some form or the other – some do deduplication in the source system (that is being backed up) and others do deduplication at the target (backup/storage server). There are also pure “deduplication based storage hardware vendors” like Data Domain who have gained considerable traction in the enterprise.
I am actually quite surprised by the hype around deduplication and the adoption it … Read the rest
Tags: Checksums, Deduplication, Encryption, Online Backup, Remote Backup, StoreGrid
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »
Synthetic Full Backup in the online backup world – Are we inviting trouble?
We have been noticing an increase in the number of ‘prospective partners’ asking if StoreGrid supports the synthetic full backup feature. StoreGrid does not yet support this feature as we have always given a low priority to this feature in the past. But now that it is being frequently asked for, we have started implementing it and hope to have this feature in the next few months. Though we would always like to give our partners as much choice and flexibility while using StoreGrid for their online backup services business, this particular feature has been haunting me for sometime. I … Read the rest
Tags: Data Security, Differential Backup, Encryption, Full Backup, Incremental Backup, Online Backup, Restores, StoreGrid, Synthetic Full Backup, Versioning
Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SMB, SP Edition, Uncategorized, Vembu StoreGrid | 18 Comments »
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