Executive Summary: Removable hard drive functionality can be added to Arcserve UDP appliances by installing a NetSwap device on the network. This provides additional drive redundancy and can be used as an alternative or supplement to cloud storage. Case study results: A customer using a NetSwap 300 in NAS mode (shared CIFS hard drives) used…
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Nature of problem: Apparent compatibility problems with large files (i.e >500GB). For example files created by StorageCraft or similar software as would occur when backing up a disk to a full to an image. If the hard drive is NTFS formatted by any NetSwap (version 2.15d and below) and you move the hard drive from…
Solve it with HR’s SpeedSeed(tm). A “Data Clog” can occur when one NAS device is replicating data to a cloud service or another NAS device through the internet, and it is interrupted. This can occur because of flakey internet connections, bandwidth issues, power failures, user error, etc. Often this results in a bulge of growing…
Removable drives are better than cloud services and conventional NAS/BDRs for Data BackUp because: 1. They are invulnerable to remote or virus attacks (when removed). It’s simple, it can’t be manipulated, deleted, or otherwise hacked if it’s powered off or sitting unattached somewhere. And removable drives can provide archive depth that not only dates back…
Like many of you, I’ve viewed the cloud computing backup hype with rolling eyes. Tonight I viewed a presentation by Amazon S3 executive that, while 45 minutes long, I felt was worth sharing. It convinced me the cloud computing backup is coming soon… and it may be something you want to watch in quiet time…