Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-24 Thread Wanda Prather
offsite but your > onsite is now getting better "Factoring" compression ratios. > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > lamont > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:18 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Sub

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-24 Thread Hart, Charles A
D] On Behalf Of lamont Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi Curtis, Unfortunately, this was already the case when I came, client encryption is the only option and the tapes are needed to be sent to offsite. I think we need t

Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread lamont
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > lamont > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:29 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication > >

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Curtis Preston
Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lamont Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do archive processing daily (file level, no tdps) with encryption enabled? T

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Matthew Warren
23/01/2008 15:47 Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > As with all questions like this, the answer is "it depends". > It depends on the

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Hart, Charles A
ge- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Oooh, what a great question! I'd guess if client encryption is on and working, the dedup ratio shou

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Wanda Prather
essage- > >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > >lamont > >Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:29 AM > >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > >Subject: [ADSM

Re: Data Deduplication[-UNSECURE-]

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Bullock
anuary 23, 2008 8:42 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Oooh, what a great question! I'd guess if client encryption is on and working, the dedup ratio should be about 1:1; because the data should never encrypt the same way twice. On 1/23/08, lamont <[EMA

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Wanda Prather
Oooh, what a great question! I'd guess if client encryption is on and working, the dedup ratio should be about 1:1; because the data should never encrypt the same way twice. On 1/23/08, lamont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do archive >

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Roger Deschner
Message- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >lamont >Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:29 AM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication > >Hi, >What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do

Re: Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread Ben Bullock
see. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lamont Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:29 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do archive proces

Data Deduplication

2008-01-23 Thread lamont
Hi, What would likely be the de-dupe ratio if tsm clients do archive processing daily (file level, no tdps) with encryption enabled? Thanks. +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Hi Wanda, I'm thinking that deduplication might be especially useful for all those copies of Windows System Objects that are backed up periodically, for sites that have large numbers of Windows client nodes. TSM/Windows is unable to back them up incrementally, which means each backup of a System

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-09-01 Thread Wanda Prather
"It depends". Just another thing to think about: Yes, it sounds cool to reduce the footprint of all those XP files if you have hundreds of XP systems. But, at a site where we were backing up about 200 desktops along with Windoze severs, I sat down and actually spent a bunch of time looking at wh

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-31 Thread Curtis Preston
half Of Richard Sims Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 3:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Dave Mussulman wrote: > ... Avamar said their software got > 10-20% reduction on a backup of a stock Windows XP installation. A > sin

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-31 Thread Richard Sims
On Aug 31, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Dave Mussulman wrote: ... Avamar said their software got 10-20% reduction on a backup of a stock Windows XP installation. A single system, say it's the first one you added to your backup group. That's not two users with the same email attachments saved, or identical

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-31 Thread Curtis Preston
al Message- From: Dave Mussulman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:34 PM To: Curtis Preston Cc: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Data Deduplication On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:09:09AM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote: > Unlike a de-dupe VTL that can be used with TSM, d

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Mussulman
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:09:09AM -0400, Curtis Preston wrote: > Unlike a de-dupe VTL that can be used with TSM, de-dupe backup software > would replace TSM (or NBU, NW, etc) where it's used. De-dupe backup > software takes TSM's progressive incremental much farther, only backing > up new blocks/

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-30 Thread Curtis Preston
Since this message is pretty pro-de-dupe, I want to mention that I don't sell any of this stuff. I'm just excited about the technology, have many customers large and small using it, and want to make sure it's accurately represented. >"We don't need tape, because disk is cheap!" >[...hiatus...] >"

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-30 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:40:34 -0600, Kelly Lipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'd like to steer this around a bit. Our sales folks are saying > they are losing TSM opportunities to de-dup vendors. What specific > business problem are customers trying to solve with de-dup? > I'm thinking the fo

Re: FW: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication

2007-08-30 Thread Curtis Preston
>I am 100% with you on the "why replicate backup" when you can more >easily replicate data?! If you've done away with traditional backup, then I'd agree. If you're still making tapes (or virtual tapes), then you also want those tapes offsite. You've got two choices: hand them to a dude in a tr

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-30 Thread Curtis Preston
or Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:41 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication I'd like to steer this around a bit. Our sales folks are saying they are losing TSM opportunities to de-dup vendors. What

FW: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Kelly Lipp
day, August 29, 2007 3:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Kelly, I have more than 1 customer considering a de-dup VTL product. It's true that for regular file systems, TSM doesn't redump unchanged files, so people aren't getting AS LARGE a reduc

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Wanda Prather
07 > 719-266-8777 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Curtis Preston > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:08 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Dedupl

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 03:40 PM 8/29/2007, Kelly Lipp wrote: Help me get it because aside from the typical "I gotta have it because the trade rags tell me I gotta have it", I don't get it! Kelly, I think you are correct in that TSM already gives you some of the benefits that a more traditional backup product woul

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Charles A Hart
nd to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication >As de-dup, from what I have read, compares across all files >on a "system" (server, disk storage or whatever), it seems >to me that this will be an enormous resour

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Kelly Lipp
gs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication >As de-dup, from what I have r

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Curtis Preston
>As de-dup, from what I have read, compares across all files >on a "system" (server, disk storage or whatever), it seems >to me that this will be an enormous resource hog Exactly. To make sure everyone understands, the "system," is the intelligent disk target, not a host you're backing up. A de-

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Curtis Preston
: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Longo Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:46 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication I have been hearing bits and pieces about this de-dup thing. Several things have me wondering , as folks on this list

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Curtis Preston
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Dirk Kastens >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:18 AM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication > >Hi, > >Jon Evans wrote: > > Dirk > > > > I also tried Data Domain and was not impressed. I now use

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Charles A Hart
and non-prod backups should factor very well. Hopee this helps! Regards, Charles Hart David Longo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/29/2007 10:45 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re:

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread David Longo
I have been hearing bits and pieces about this de-dup thing. Several things have me wondering , as folks on this list also testify. One thing I haven't heard about is performance. Even with TSM clients,there is the thing not do "compression" on the client due to performance issues. That is just

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-29 Thread Paul Zarnowski
on it for de-dupe to work. --- W. Curtis Preston Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Kastens Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIS

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-28 Thread Curtis Preston
tor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Kastens Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:18 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, Jon Evans wrote: > Dirk > > I also tried Data Domain and was not impressed. I now use Diligent's > Protect

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-28 Thread Dirk Kastens
Hi, Jon Evans wrote: Dirk I also tried Data Domain and was not impressed. I now use Diligent's Protectier and its far more impressive. Its scalable, reasonably priced, achieves throughput of 200mb per second and better and factoring ratio's of Over 10 to 1 We mainly backup normal files and on

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-28 Thread Curtis Preston
SM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication According to Dilligent, when RMAN uses Multiplexing, it intermingles the data from each RMAN so the data block will be different every time so the blocks are different, similar to Multiplexing with Netbackup... I'm not an RMAN exp

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-28 Thread Jon Evans
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Kastens Sent: 27 August 2007 08:31 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, > Writing a de-dupe backup product isn't easy. EMC bought Avamar and > Symantec bought Data Center Technologies to

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
--Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Curtis - I'm unclear on your terminology. Are you equating "subfile" to &q

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Curtis - I'm unclear on your terminology. Are you equating "subfile" to "block" level deduping? To me, block level means block boundaries, whereas subfile doesn't have the boundary restriction. Perhaps I interpret these words this way because of my history. To me, a block is a 4K chunk (or 1K

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
>As others have noted, different vendors dedup at different levels of >granularity. I think I'd put it slightly differently. I'd say that they each approach it differently. Those different approaches may have advantages and disadvantages with different data types. >When I spoke to Diligent at

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 12:40 PM 8/27/2007, Curtis Preston wrote: Every block coming into the device should be compared to every other block ever seen by the device. As others have noted, different vendors dedup at different levels of granularity. When I spoke to Diligent at the Gartner conference over a year ago

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Charles A Hart
Thanks Curtis! Charles Hart UHT - Data Protection Curtis Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/27/2007 01:22 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
ion, GlassHouse Technologies -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles A Hart Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:53 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication According to Dilligent, when RMAN uses Multiplexing, it i

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Charles A Hart
http://unitedteams.uhc.com/uht/EnterpriseStorage/DataProtection/default.aspx Curtis Preston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/27/2007 11:40 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Data

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Ben Bullock
nted. Ben -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Curtis Preston Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Data Deduplication >3) Oracle Specific >Do not use RMAN's Multiplexing i

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
>Every pitch I've yet seen on de-dupe has glossed over where the >metadata goes, and how it's defended. If you see a data deduplication >solution which doesn't take at -least- as much care over the DB as we >do in TSM land, then my opinion is "Flee at flank s

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
>3) Oracle Specific >Do not use RMAN's Multiplexing in RMAN will combine 4 >Channels together and the backup data then will be unique every time thus >not allowing forde-duping) >Use the File Seq=1 (Then run multiple channels) I don't

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Wanda Prather
t;ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > 08/27/2007 02:31 AM > Please respond to > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > > To > ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > cc > > Subject > Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication > > > > > > > Hi, > >> Writing a de-dupe

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Paul Zarnowski
At 09:24 AM 8/27/2007, Charles A Hart wrote: We are seeing 10 and 15:1 on our Oracle and DB2, Exchange 12:1 (The DB's and Exchange all do Daily Full Backups) In the regular Win env, we see 1.45 and 2:1 ick... Charles, how many windows clients was this with? I've been thinking about this and a

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:58:45 -0400, "Hughes, George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> said: > Is TSM planning on adding data deduplication similar to avamar? I > understand how TSM does not duplicate data now but minor edits in > files or simple file name changes w

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Charles A Hart
:1 ick... Hope this helps. Regards, Charles Dirk Kastens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 08/27/2007 02:31 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, >

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Curtis Preston
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Kastens Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 12:31 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication Hi, > Writing a de-dupe backup product isn't easy. EMC bought Avamar and > Symantec bought Data Center Technologies to get their respective &g

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-27 Thread Dirk Kastens
Hi, Writing a de-dupe backup product isn't easy. EMC bought Avamar and Symantec bought Data Center Technologies to get their respective products. I don't know of any other de-dupe companies for IBM to acquire, so they'll have to write their own. That may take them a bit longer. We're just te

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-26 Thread Curtis Preston
>Is TSM planning on adding data deduplication similar to avamar? As mentioned by Richard, the closest thing TSM has to this now is subfile backup. It is related to de-duplication, where once it has a backup of a given file, it backs up only the changed bytes of that file. This is also refer

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-26 Thread Fred Johanson
But it is being pursued for future release - after the conversion of the DB to DB2. From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims Sent: Sun 8/26/2007 7:23 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Data Deduplication On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:58

Re: Data Deduplication

2007-08-26 Thread Richard Sims
On Aug 26, 2007, at 4:58 AM, Hughes, George wrote: Is TSM planning on adding data deduplication similar to avamar? I understand how TSM does not duplicate data now but minor edits in files or simple file name changes would result in additional copies of the entire file using TSM today. Except

Data Deduplication

2007-08-26 Thread Hughes, George
Is TSM planning on adding data deduplication similar to avamar? I understand how TSM does not duplicate data now but minor edits in files or simple file name changes would result in additional copies of the entire file using TSM today. We recently had a pitch from EMC on avamar. I can think of