Electronic Discovery Navigator

A Quick-Guide Article to Reducing Backup Times

A Quick-Guide Article to Reducing Backup Times

"Though backup software vendors continue making advancements in technology to speed up the process, the time it takes to backup can still be very time consuming for many IT managers today. A recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne on 1,000 UK companies suggested businesses are on average backing up to tape once a month, with one rather alarming statistic from the same survey showing 10 percent were only backing up to tape once per year.

This infrequency of backup could realistically be strongly attributable to the time factor involved. Likely, many companies would run their backups on Friday evenings, in the hope for it to be completed by Monday business start. But with such large data pools, these backups might not complete in time, and can therefore often be postponed for larger time frames."

5 Musts For E-Discovery And Backup Tapes

5 Musts For E-Discovery And Backup Tapes

"E-discovery is a complex process that has intricate technological and legal requirements. That's why it's essential that your IT and legal teams coordinate their e-discovery efforts. For instance, IT may assume that legal wants every electronic file saved forever. It doesn't. Meantime, the legal department may assume that IT has some Google-like capability to magically produce relevant information. It doesn't. The sooner you move beyond these assumptions, the sooner these two groups can design and implement effective e-discovery processes."

Six easy ways to speed up backups

Six easy ways to speed up backups

"The first step and the most time-consuming part of inexpensive data pruning is setting the criteria for what you want to prune and what you want to do with it.

The next step is to decide what you want to do with different types of files and the then set criteria such as length of retention for the different categories. It may turn out that all those JPEGs cluttering up everyone's disks aren't just collections of naughty pictures, for instance, and simply banning JPEGs from backups will create more problems than it solves. It might better to use a single-instance storage scheme for all those charts saved in JPEG format rather than trying to eliminate JPEGs altogether."

Data backup: protecting your most valuable asset

Data backup: protecting your most valuable asset

"A growing number of businesses rely on data or electronically stored information. As a result, they need to know that it can be recovered easily in the event of a serious failure or major incident. Without contingency plans for such recovery the very survival of a company could be at stake. Archiving and restoration of data can be a complicated and time-consuming process and more businesses are relying on third party providers to support them with this."

Is Tape Dead in the SMB Market? HP and Sony Think Not

Is Tape Dead in the SMB Market? HP and Sony Think Not

"What is the viability of the tape market in the future, taking into account advances in online technology and compliance/eDiscovery requirements? According to Robert Amatruda, research director, Tape and Removable Storage, IDC, 'Tape continues to be a key part of many organizations’ data-protection strategy. Yes, increased use of disk for performance, search and discovery requirements augments tape’s low cost. Tape is still being deployed with enhanced features such as encryption and WORM.'"

Increasing Tape Backup Visibility

Increasing Tape Backup Visibility

"RenewData has developed a new method of processing backup tapes that better support discovery and risk management when it comes to electronically stored information (ESI).

The company specialises in electronically stored information risk management (ESIRM) services, and claims that this new “single-pass” backup tape processing technology allows files that have been segmented across more than one backup tape to be read as a whole. Normally each tape would have to be processed in the original sequence or read more than once to achieve this."

Symantec Protection Network – Online Backup, How Innovative?

Symantec Protection Network – Online Backup, How Innovative?

"Symantec Online Backup is a middle of the road service for small businesses that should have some appeal especially after Symantec takes the time to add a few features the competition already has. Symantec Online Storage for Backup Exec on the other hand breaks new ground providing online-offsite backup capabilities to the legions of Windows shops running Backup Exec, after they update to the new version 12.

Someone in Symantec's marketing department really should have realized that Symantec Online Backup will naturally be abbreviated SOB and that that creates too many opportunities for bad jokes for some with less restraint than this blogger. That aside Symantec did so some things right; a small business can create 1 account to protect an unlimited number of Windows workstations and/or servers and pays based on the size of the data to be protected and the length of time your data should be retained. Rates start at $43/mo for 10GB with a year's data retention. Overages are $5.10/GB but we expect Symantec will come up with plans at lower rates for larger customers."

White House reused e-mail tapes

White House reused e-mail tapes

"The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages - including those pertaining to the CIA leak case - have been taped over and are gone forever."

(Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22685861/.)

Report Says Corporate IT Almost Ready for Online Backup

Corporate IT almost ready for online backup, IDC says

"The inability of large enterprises to control exploding data growth over the next few years will fuel rapidly increasing corporate use of hosted backup services, according to an IDC report released last week."

(Source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=disaster_

recovery&articleId=9057229&taxonomyId=83&intsrc=kc_top.)