Mark

Solaris Linux and Windows clients.  We do not backup desktops or laptops with 
it.  We have a central PureDisk server is in San Diego and remote offices are 
in about a dozen countries.  We do not have any PureDisk servers in the remote 
office but may add one in the future to a couple larger sites and then 
replicate back to San Diego.

Monte

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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:19 PM
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 Monte, just curious, what type of clients are you backing up, servers,
desktops, laptops with PureDisk?  Do you have a server in the remote
office as a stage device that goes back to a central server or do you go
directly to a central server ?




Mark Jessup - IS Manager
Enterprise Storage and Content Management/Imaging
Northwestern Mutual
(414) 661-3968
markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ambrose,
Monte
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:00 PM
To: Curtis Preston; Robin Small; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] De-Dupe with NBU PureDisk

We are using PureDisk for our remote sites and it is doing a great job
with the de-dupe.  We are backing up across networks with very high
latency and at T1 or even less speeds

-- Monte

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Curtis
Preston
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:52 PM
To: Robin Small; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] De-Dupe with NBU PureDisk

That scenario is exactly what Puredisk was designed for.  If it's
typical user data (i.e. not auto-generated data like seismic or medical
imaging), I'd estimate less than 1% a day going across the wire, often
less than 0.5%.  (Your mileage may vary, of course.)

---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Robin
Small
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 7:55 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] De-Dupe with NBU PureDisk

The talk about the tapeless environments has got me thinking, and oddly
enough, we just got a visit from our Quantum sales reps talking about
the DXi series dedupe products.

Any of you folks have much experience with the Symantec NBU PureDisk
approach?

We have some remote offices that I currently have media servers at with
small slot-count autoloaders. I *hate* having to go change tapes
(they're all in-town but still a pita). I'm curious about the
utilization and replication over relatively slow T1 links.

~ Robin


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