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1 Backup Software 2010 Presented by W. Curtis Preston Executive Editor & Independent Backup Expert

3 When I was in the IT Department When I started as backup guy at $35B company in 1993: Tape Drive: QIC 80 (80 MB capacity) Tape Drive: Exabyte 8200 (2.5 GB & 256KB/s) Biggest Server: 4 GB ( 93), 100 GB ( 96) Entire Data Center: 200 GB ( 93), 400 GB ( 96) My TIVO now has 5 times the storage my data center did! Consulting in backup & recovery since 96 Author of O Reilly s Backup & Recovery & Using SANs and NAS Webmaster of BackupCentral.com Founder/CEO of Truth in IT Follow me on

4 Agenda Backup and restore problems New backup & restore features New products

5 BACKUP & RESTORE PROBLEMS

6 So much data, So little time Every year we digitize more and more data, creating more and more storage that must be backed up Yet the tolerance for traditional backup methods is waning No one wants their systems to be inaccessible or slow during backup They also want their systems immediately restored with no data loss

8 Data loss notifications laws: Security Requires encryption of personal data by law (MA):

9 Remote & Mobile Data

10 Remote & Mobile Data Important data No (or limited) IT personnel Poor bandwidth Using tape for remote data is an open invitation for data loss or security issues 60-80%* of corporate data resides on PCs and laptops not on servers * Source: Gartner

11 Server Virtualization

12 Server Virtualization 10s to 100s of remote offices in your datacenter (servers w/poor bandwidth) The difference is you could be required to simultaneously restore all of these remote offices Physics is the problem Can only utilize traditional backup techniques for so long

13 BACKUP & RESTORE FEATURES

14 Virtual Full Backups Available with many products Get the power of a full without the data transfer Resulting full is the same as a normal full Restores are the same Do not need previous tapes Incremental backups based on the full

15 Backup Software Target Dedupe Target dedupe built into backup software allows some of the benefits of appliance dedupe while using generic storage Not quite as powerful or scalable as most appliance solutions but may be more affordable for SMBs

16 Source Dedupe Designed to back up remote data over very slow connections Remote sites Mobile systems Best suited for environments where bandwidth is a primary concern Showing up in many backup products

17 Dedupe to Tape? Concern is that you would need dozens of tapes to restore a single file Best used for long term storage of data that you will not frequently restore from Must have a good plan for what happens when you do need it

19 Cloud Backup & Archive Not your father s Internet backup Pricing plans much more affordable, especially for home data Perfect for remote data sets, smaller companies, or personal Investigate possible future insourcing if it s ever possible

20 Backups Into Archives? Typically this is a no-no Old grape juice is not wine, and old backups are not archives Unless you turn them into archives Must give them greater context than typical backup Full-text search of content of files Full-text search against metadata (owner, From:, etc.) Separation from host & application requirement

21 BACKUP & RESTORE PRODUCTS

22 Disclaimer There are hundreds of backup products out there and I have only a few minutes Inclusion or exclusion of a product does not equate to me endorsing it or rejecting it Products are listed alphabetically

23 ARCserve Aimed at SMBs One of the longest-running products Investigate new features Deduplication SRM reporting in dashboard

24 Avamar Self-contained source dedupe Largest installed base (source) Good for remote sites, Vmware Gets around any VSS issues, since it can be run inside the VM w/o usual performance issues

25 Backup Exec Aimed at SMBs Investigate new features OST Enterprise vault Engine Integrated source/target dedupe Work-around for VMware VSS issue

26 CommVault Aimed at SMB & ME, aiming higher CommVault Technology Engine Backup, Archive, CDP, near-cdp from one engine Integrated target dedupe, source is coming Backups can offer some archive functionality via full-text search Main Commserve runs on Windows Depends on VMware for VSS

27 NetBackup Aimed at enterprise Workaround for VMware VSS Investigate these features Synthetic Fulls, cumulatives CDP capabilities w/realtime Target & source dedupe built-in Storage lifecycle policies SAN client OST

28 NetWorker Aimed at enterprise Depends on VMware for VSS All dedupe built into DD or Avamar Investigate these features Controlling of Avamar backups Saveset consolidation Several cloning enhancements Major cloning enhancements by Q4 10 DD Boost by Q4 10 CDP features via RecoverPoint

29 TSM Aimed at enterprise Now uses full DB2 database Investigate these features CDP features via Fastback Active Data Pools (6.2) Simultaneous operations Backup to copy pool Migrate disk to tape Copy active data

30 Vmware-specific Products All have worked around Vmware s VSS issues PHDVirtual ESXpress Integrated Source dedupe Veeam Backup & Replication Near-CDP style recovery Vizioncore vranger Pro Object Recovery for Exchange

31 Cloud Backup EMC Mozy Iron Mountain Connected LiveVault Microsoft DPM Carbonite Crashplan Asigra service providers

32 Interesting CDP-like products MS DPM (near-cdp) NetApp Snapmanager Snapmirror Snapvault, OSSV Falconstor (CDP, near-cdp) inmage (CDP) AppAssure (CDP) Cofio (Unified backup)

34 THANK YOU!

Backup Software Data Deduplication: What you need to know. Presented by W. Curtis Preston Executive Editor & Independent Backup Expert

Backup Software Data Deduplication: What you need to know Presented by W. Curtis Preston Executive Editor & Independent Backup Expert When I was in the IT Department When I started as backup guy at $35B