I’ve mentioned HP’s StoreOnce Deduplication a couple of times in my blog and I’ve found a nice video that explains it in laymans terms:
Category Archive: Backup
Jan 22
HP Data Protector 6.21 Multipath Issue
As I said in my post ‘HP Data Protector 6.21 available’ I mentioned there were issues with the multipath setup and there are a few workarounds for it: Uninstall the 6.21 patches Use the GUI from 6.2 Request hotfix QCCR2A35525 through a HP Support Call Configure your multipath devices through omnidownload & omniupload I hope …
Jan 20
Direct Backup from SAN – Veeam FAIL
Veeam have released a patch to address the issues that users have been experiencing with Veeam v6 direct from SAN backups. The issues being seen include switching over to NBD mode, general long backups times and basic failures from the direct backup from san mode. The following KB lists the patch required: http://www.veeam.com/kb_articles.html/KB1442
Jan 18
HP Data Protector – patches for vSphere 5 support
Are you running 6.2 of HP Data Protector? Upgrade to the latest (Windows) patches to ensure vSphere 5 compatability: Core – DPWIN_00527 Cell Server – DPWIN_00529 Cell Console – DPWIN_00530 Media Agent – DPWIN_00516 Disk Agent – DPWIN_00515 Virtual Environment – DPWIN_00531 It should be noted that a previous patch (00528) did have a patch …
Jan 16
HP Data Protector 6.21 Available
HP has released Data Protector 6.21 which now includes the HP StoreOnce de-duplication engine. This enables the delivery of high performance and resource efficient software based de-duplication which helps improve utilization of storage across the enterprise. This helps maximise existing IT resources, such as disk based backup storage, and meet stringent service levels (backup windows …