Best Practices For Disk-To-Disk Backup

By iStor Networks

Data backup in small to medium enterprises has in recent years gone from a low priority housekeeping activity to one that is a focal point of an effective information management strategy that encompasses data availability and data retention to meet the critical business needs of the organization. These business needs include not only implementing an effective backup strategy for internal company needs of data protection but also to meet the additional industry regulatory compliance mandates and data discovery demands for legal requirements. As businesses continue to expand their information systems, and their storage capacity grows 50 – 100% per year, it becomes increasingly important to have a high performance and scalable storage environment to successfully address the backup window.

The iStor integraStor iS325 SATA iSCSI Storage Appliance or the iS512 SAS/SATA Scalable iSCSI Storage System provide a high performance yet cost effective storage platform for backing up multiple Windows servers, or other platforms, using Symantec's popular Backup Exec software. This document provides guidelines for configuration of backup systems that take advantage of integraStor's superior performance and reliability in these applications.

Data backup requires both plenty of bandwidth and plenty of capacity to make sure you can restore from your backup data successfully whenever you need to do so with the overall objective of meeting the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of the organization.