If you have decided to use StarWind Virtual Tape Library in an environment where you have Symantec Backup Exec and looking to find out how to integrate both products. I have some. bkf files I backed up to an external hard drive using NTbackup. Trying to restore them using Backup Exec, but Backup Exec seems to be 100. All LTO4LTO6 Backup tapes being recognized as cleaning tapes in Backup Exec. Linux System Administration and Configuration After installation, Linux requires configuration and systems administration. Corporate systems need monitoring, backups. TSM IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Backup Solution Storage Solution Management Solution Vitalization Solution. Thursday 1. 2 March 2. I still remember the days almost 1. SATA drives hit the storage market by a storm and it became a much cheaper replacement to Fiber Channel drives which were the defacto choice for enterprise storage at that time. In short few years, SATA drive has became a very desirable option in enterprise storage when capacity rather than performance is the focus. I remember having the discussion over the years with many IT Admins about when Tape will be obsolete as result of storage prices going cheaper by day. Larger and larger SATA drives with lower price tags have been hitting the market over the year, which has  only spurred more of these discussions. BE14ShowVTLDevices2.png' alt='How To Install Tape Drive In Backup Exec' title='How To Install Tape Drive In Backup Exec' />Nonetheless 1. Tape Drives are still the main backup medium today at large enterprises. Sunday 8 March 2. If you have decided to use Star. Wind Virtual Tape Library in an environment where you have Symantec Backup Exec and looking to find out how to integrate both products together then you have came to the right place. In fact if you have used or setup Symantec Backup Exec with ADIC Scalar 1. HP MSL 2. 02. 4 Tape library previously then you have went through the complete process before. In this post, I will show you how to integrate your Symantec Backup Exec with Star. Wind Virtual Tape Library that is emulating HP MSL 2. This post, assume you have already setup the Star. Wind Virtual Tape Library drives. If you have not yet done so, then please start by going through my previous post Star. Remote Download Wireless Adapter Windows 7. Wind Virtual Tape Library. Now that you have got the Star. How To Install Tape Drive In Backup Exec' title='How To Install Tape Drive In Backup Exec' />Wind Virtual Tape Library ready, lets the integration with Symantec Backup Exec begin. Monday 4 February 2. This is a guest post by Gavin CROSS. I would like to start by thanking Gavin for the great contribution. As we move further into the digital age, the preferred medium for storing data is becoming online services. Rather than a physical hard drive kept in your home or office backing up the hard drives you are using for the actual computers you work on, more and more storage is being done through online backup services. There are those who say the future is in the Cloud, but for now at least, were still relying on someone elses physical hard drives kept offsite. Here are a few of the online backup services available 1. Google Drive. Saturday 8 September 2. Backing up your virtual environment does not have to be as challenging as it seems. Actually if you do it right it should be rewarding when compared with physical servers backup. You can restore VM from images backup much easier than you ever did with physical servers. Yes, you were able to restore physical servers from images backup as well but that had never been fun or easy to do. Restoring a physical machine from image backup had always meant fuzzing with drivers issues specially when using different hardware from the source. As virtual machines run independently from the physical hardware, they can be restored from images quickly to any host without caring about the hardware difference. This is alone is a huge advantage. Sunday 1. 5 July 2. It seems IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for VMware v. Storage API Data Protection or as usually called VADP is having a lot of attraction lately. Though on the other hand, many TSM v. Sphere admins are confused about which version of TSM are supporting VADP and which version still force them to use the old VMWare Consolidated backup or VCB. Before I share with you the versions of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager that support VADP and the versions that support VCB and which particular versions of v. Sphere they work with. There is a huge note that many people mess about IBM Tivoli Storage Manager and that can be a relief for most admins. Keep reading for that surprising piece of info if you are v. Sphere admin that your TSM admin is opposing to upgrade their Tivoli Storage Manager backup server to allow you to benefit from VADP. Tuesday 8 May 2. 01. Borland C Builder 6 Enterprise Edition Keygen Software'>Borland C Builder 6 Enterprise Edition Keygen Software. The Star. Wind i. SCSI SAN has always been my lab primary SAN. It has never failed me, I know of many companies who is quite happy with their Star. Wind i. SCSI SAN and who refuse to move to a hardware box after seeing the benefits how it fits their need. It has been amazing year this year as Star. Wind were kind enough to sponsor my blog. Though that is not all for Star. Wind this year. They have been nominated as finalist in multiple categories in the Storage Award 2. Drag And Drop File Download Html5 Canvas. Below are the categories they were nominated for if you are a happy customer of their or welling to try their software and see if they deserve a vote, then the categories to vote for them are. Monday 1. 2 March 2. I have been approached by PHD Virtual to try out and review PHD Virtual Monitor. I have decided to take the challenge and discover how it operate. As usual I will start with what I liked about the product then I will describe what I felt missing and that I would love to see being added or fixed in future releases. I believe this help admins figure out if PHD Virtual Monitor is the product they are looking for and will help PHD Virtual to make sure their products cover the needs of more admins. Before I get to evaluating the product, if you are looking for instruction on how to install it or just wondering how I did install it and test it in my lab then please have a look at my other post at PHD Virtual Monitor for VMware Step by Step Installation Configuration. Thursday 1. 6 February 2. While many of you wonder why I am explaining manual Disaster Recovery failback when using VMware Site Recovery Manager where its an automated feature that is included in VMware v. Center Site Recovery Manager 5. Two main scenarios where this apply, the first one if you still using any v. Center Site Recovery Manager prior to VMware SRM 5. The other one if you need to break the replication then recover back without syncing back the changes that happened at the Disaster Recovery Site. In this scenario you wont be able to use the automated failback feature of VMware v. Center Site Recovery Manager 5 as that sync the changes back to production in the process which you might not desire. For both of these scenarios the below steps become handy. Tuesday 1. 4 February 2. Its that day where you thought finally you got everything working perfectly with your Exchange infrastructure your manager walk in and say our old storage where your Microsoft Exchange Server is installed is getting out of warranty and the good news we are replacing it with this new shiny storage box which should give us a better performance and durability. I need this done in a week time. Now you start scratching your head on how to move you Microsoft Exchange 2. Cluster or Microsoft Exchange 2. SCCSingle Copy Cluster to the new SAN. While my article here can not do the work for you. It will show you how you can do it with ease, without doing mailbox movement although that might be another good way to do it if you have extra hardware for it Below is how to migrate your Microsoft Exchange Cluster to a new SAN. As well you can find my article on migrating SQL at http www. Tuesday 1. 4 February 2. As with every IT environment new elements and upgrades are becoming a daily task rather than being a yearly task few years back. One of the most consuming upgrade task is storage migration. Your boss has just bought this new shiny storage box he got it installed by the vendor in the datacenter.