Backups

vSphere 4.1 and Data Recovery 1.2

September 28, 2020

VMware has updated Vmware data recovery (vDR) to be more reliable with less quirks in their latest release 1.2 and vS
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CA 12.5 Deduplication Device and XOsoft 12.5 Replication

July 5, 2020
CA 12.5 Deduplication Device and XOsoft 12.5 Replication

In this blog I go over CA Arcserve 12.5 and XOsoft to show how they both can be used to give added data recovery options and get rid of tape in remote locations. Now there are many ways you could accomplish the same thing and this is just one. So, I was working with...
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CA Arcserve 12.5 and vSphere 4 VCB Pt2

December 6, 2020

I will assume that you have read the first post which goes thru the installation and configuration of the CA Arcserve 12.5 software which can be found here. Now that the environment has been configured we can configure a backup of the vm guests. For this I have a video which shows the steps.
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Test driving VMware Data Recovery (vDR)

October 16, 2020
Test driving VMware Data Recovery (vDR)

One of the most important things next to virtualizing all those physical servers is backing them up and restoring them. This of course is not a great feat with virtualization since basically the servers are now a group of files. There are and have been for some time full featured backup/restore products out there...
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CA Arcserve 12.5 and vSphere 4 VCB Pt1

October 7, 2020

The recent release of 12.x has helped raise the bar of the backup solution. CA is getting better at backing up vm guests leveraging Vmware VCB. This provides a backup product which can be used for virtual or physical systems.
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