Associate Principal SW QA Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Vendor
Feb 11, 2016
Avamar supports Extended Retention Media Access nodes -- A Media Access node exports backup data from an Avamar server to a tape library (physical or virtual) for long-term retention purposes. It has an HBA port that allows a tape device to be connected directly to the node via fiber-optic
cable. It is not part of an ADS Gen4S server (not connected to the Avamar system’s internal
network).
Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Domain are competitive solutions in the backup market. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain seems to have an advantage due to its superior deduplication and compression capabilities.Features: Dell Avamar stands out for client-side deduplication, enhanced compression in collaboration with VMware and Data Domain, and effective remote site backups utilizing minimal bandwidth. Dell PowerProtect Data Domain is praised for robust deduplication, DD Boost for fast...
Avamar supports Extended Retention Media Access nodes -- A Media Access node exports backup data from an Avamar server to a tape library (physical or virtual) for long-term retention purposes. It has an HBA port that allows a tape device to be connected directly to the node via fiber-optic
cable. It is not part of an ADS Gen4S server (not connected to the Avamar system’s internal
network).
Happy to help but need to know quite a lot more to be able to help properly.
Can you tell me more about what you want to achieve and why, how long is long term, for compliance, cultural or commercial reasons?
What kinds of files are being held, what is the growth rate and more importantly what are the access patterns.
If you can give me some response to this I can work out in which way to take my next questions in order to be able to give some real value.
Roland
www.hds.com/products/storage-software/hitachi-data-instance-manager.html
TSM? Druva?