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These data backup tutorials help VARs and systems integrators integrate and optimize backups, and employ backup best practices in customers' shops to ensure they are able to quickly and effectively backup and retrieve data.


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How to improve data backup time
Data backup times could be drastically improved in shops where budgets are stretched to fund primary storage growth. Find out which technologies can improve data backup throughput.

Best practices: 10 basic steps for better backup
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
Regardless of the backup application you use, there are fundamentals that need to be in place to ensure better backup operations.

Worst practices for backup and disaster recovery
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
Even when network administrators are aware of the need for a solid data backup and recovery plan, too many companies observe worst practices, thereby dooming the plan. Here's a partial list of what they may be doing...

Move your backups to a SAN
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
Speed, communication and block-orientation are just a few of the reasons that users are moving their backups from Ethernet-based LANs to Fibre Channel SANs.

Optimizing tape restores
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
Every organization understands the need to backup data, but many do not actually backup with restorability in mind. This tip will help you solve tape restore problems by following a few simple guidelines.

Restoring data: Increase your efficiency
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
This tip highlights an aspect of backup that most are not as experienced and comfortable with -- restoring.

Speed backups by pruning data
(Presented by SearchStorage.com)
Setting policy about what types of files you back up, using e-mail archiving software and backing up applications separately from your data can drastically improve backup performance.


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