drunkNerd

I have been around almost every backup product available (except some lesser known backup programs) and have seen many features, and different ways to backup data. I don””t want to point fingers or tell you which product is the best and which is the worst (I””ll save that for another post ), but what I will tell you is the absolute fastest way to backup VMware.

Imagine being able to minimize your backup times by 90 percent. Most large organizations have tight backup windows and even their enterprise level backup solution cant keep up with the day to day business processes. Imagine being able to run a daily full backup instead of a weekly full and daily incrementals or differentials.

Well that dream is a reality with EMC”’’s Avamar. I””ve seen it, and I do it every week in different companies all the time. Avamar is a unique backup solution that allows for accelerated VMware backup and restore performance and efficiency. By filtering out redundant data segments through its global source-based deduplication, Avamar pushes up to a 200 percent reduction in the amount of data that has to be moved through your virtual infrastructure. Allowing you to replace your weekly fulls and daily incrementals with daily fulls. Which also allows for a faster recovery time.

I””m mostly writing this in my own amazement of how Avamar has changed my opinion on how data should be backed up but also to help you in reducing backup windows and time to recovery. I””ll post more tips and tricks in later posts. If you would like some immediate help contact me on linkedin.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/robsteele