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Cloudberry Online Backup Review

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking for! Cloudberry offers several backup products for almost any situation,…

Win some lab gear from Unitrends!

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Justin Paul | 2 Comments

This contest has perfect timing, I am working on my review of several backup products and Unitrends was already on the list to review. If however you are a geek like me and also need some lab gear head over…

Appassure 5 Backup: Installation and Configuration Review

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 24 Comments

As promised this is the first of a couple articles on the backup products I have been watching. I plan to go through them in alphabetical order, starting with Appassure and ending with Veeam. In the middle I plan to…

Veeam 6.5 Released!

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Personally I have been waiting for this one since VMworld… Mainly because Veeam 6.5 now supports vSphere 5.1, aside from that Veeam 6.5 also has some other new features. Probably the second biggest new feature in 6.5 is the Exchange…

Upgrading Data Domain Appliances without Sacrificing Capacity

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

Data Domain 620 appliances come in two flavors, a 12TB version and a 7TB version, for both versions the chassis is the same only the drive count is different. For the 12TB version you get 12x1TB drives in RAID 6,…

Veeam and Data Domain: A Case Study

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Justin Paul | 29 Comments

This is the story of a customer who recently implemented Veeam and Data Domain; all names have been changed to protect the innocent, etc etc 🙂 Background “BOB’S BAIT AND TACKLE” was running VMware 4.1 on a mostly HP environment,…

Win a Dream Lab from Veeam

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

If you need some new lab gear you will want to stop by booth 1709 at VMworld this year. Veeam is giving away pretty sweet home lab setup this year, and it looks like all you need to do is…

Veeam Exchange Explorer

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Exchange Explorer from Veeam is a product that was just released into public beta; and I must say that it is probably something you are going to want to check out. The idea behind this product is to get rid…

Using Veeam with Data Domain DeDupe Appliances

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Justin Paul | 17 Comments

Veeam is a disk to disk backup solution which makes restore times much faster than tape backups, but one of the drawbacks is the massive amount of disk space required to keep full backup images for long periods of time…

The Missing Manual Part 3: Veeam Application Aware Backups

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

One thing that I don’t think is stressed enough in the Veeam manual is the “Application-Aware” checkbox that is, by default, not checked. Because Veeam (like most other image level backup software) do not do a true system state backup…