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Microsoft Releases Public Beta of Data Protection

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the safety-first dept.

Torrey Clark writes "Microsoft has released the public beta of its disk-to-disk backup product, Data Protection Manager. The product is designed to make backups easier than simply backing up to tape. Disk-to-disk backup completes images in significantly less time, meaning much less downtime for systems during backups."

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  1. StoreAge Networking Technologies support by xtracto · · Score: 5, Informative

    So it seems DPM is only a "data-mover", so it will need to be combined with another technology, after some research i found this:

    StoreAge Networking Technologies announced that it will be developing enhanced solutions to support Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager

    The full article is: here

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  2. Re:One more thing... by Harassed · · Score: 3, Informative
    I just use dd, since any file level backing up in a live Windows can't do a complete job

    Yes it can and has been able to for some time, at least on the server side. Windows Server 2003 has a service called Volume Shadow Copy which is designed to do exactly that.

  3. Re:downtime during backup? by abysmanu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sometimes systems will need to be brought down before performing a backup. Otherwise the image might be in a state of flux, causing potential problems during recovery.

    Some backup utilities provide capability to take a snapshot and backup that snapshot while the system continues to be used.

    One of the features Microsoft is touting in this product is 'moving only the byte-level changes of the file servers' thus eliminating any downtime.

  4. Re:A few points by jbarr · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have used Acronis' backup product on my workstations, and it works on-the-fly. I even tested it by doing a full backup, formatting the system disk, and restoring, and everything "came back" like it was before I did the backtup. Acronis certainly has an excellent product.

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  5. Subversion as a backup solution by damieng · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've recently been using Subversion as a backup solution at home with great success.

    My server runs it's own SVN repository and each of my machines can check in it's important files into the tree.

    This backup solution is quick and thanks to tools like TortoiseSVN integrates into the desktop for ease of use.

    Additional bonus factors are the ability to see the revision history, roll-back, full cross-platform support.

    You can also manage multiple copies of the same file to multiple machines should you need to work on them or just want additional resilience.

    The real icing of the cake of course is that you can run it over SSL via Apache or over SSH and therefore remotely access your backed-up files from out on the Internet should you suddenly need an invoice or a photograph while sitting in a net cafe in a foreign country.

    Oh, and it's free by both definitions. http://subversion.tigris.org

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