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Review: How Symantec Backup Exec 11d interacts with CPS
By Michael Pietroforte | No Comments | PermalinkLast week, I introduced Symantec Continuous Protection Server (CPS). Today, I will discuss, how CPS interacts with Backup Exec 11d.
Review: Symantec Backup Exec 11d – Continuous Protection Server (CPS)
By Michael Pietroforte | 2 Comments | PermalinkThis article is part of a series about my experience during my trial of Backup Exec 11d and Continuous Protection Server (CPS), Symantec’s CDP tools. I will discuss CPS, how Backup Exec and CPS interact, and how continuous protection of Microsoft Exchange works. Today, I will start with CPS.
Symantec Backup Exec 11d: Conventional backups at its ends?
By Michael Pietroforte | 1 Comment | PermalinkI just installed Symantec Backup Exec 11d and was somewhat surprised that there are no major changes to the core product, the good old backup tool that copies your files to tapes. Then, why did Symantec release a new version? The major changes come with Continuous Protection Server (CPS), which was originally planned as a stand-alone product. Since version 10d, CPS has become a component of Backup Exec. It seems that Symantec focuses now on Continuous Data Protection (CDP) . This raises the question, whether conventional backup tools will soon vanish from our server rooms.
Symantec Backup Exec 11d with continuous data protection for Exchange and SQL Server
By Michael Pietroforte | 1 Comment | PermalinkThe final of Backup Exec 11d will be available on the 6th of November. It will support backups of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. I tested the CDP component of Backup Exec 10d a while ago and I liked it better than Microsoft’s DPM 2006. Both companies offer new versions now and it seems that Symantec is a bit faster since there is only Beta 1 of DPM v2 available at the moment. I am currently testing DPM v2 and I’ll report about it here soon. I certainly will also try Backup Exec 11d. We were about to introduce Symantec’s CDP solution, but I decided to postpone this until I tested the new versions of both tools.
Live backup of a virtual machine on VMWare Server with Symantec Backup Exec using the open file option
By Michael Pietroforte | 3 Comments | PermalinkLast week, I made a online backup of a virtual machine on Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 using the Advanced Open File Option of Symantec Backup Exec. Although, this is a questionable way to backup a virtual machine, I was curious if I could do the same with virtual machine under VMware Server.




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