《02-22-12-optimizing-NAS-backup》.pdfVIP

Addressing NAS Backup and Recovery Challenges David Garcia – EMC Product Marketing Daniel Miller – EMC Product Manager February 22, 2012 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1 Agenda •NAS Data Growth •Traditional NAS Backup Recovery Challenges •Why EMC Avamar •Summary •QA © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 2 Unstructured Data and File Shares Are Growing Exponentially Source: “Addressing NAS Backup and Recovery Challenges,” Enterprise Strategy Group White Paper, September 2010 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 3 NAS Backup Challenges High redundancy in file shares Traditional NDMP weekly full backup (level 0) and daily incremental backups (level 1): • Move massive amounts of redundant data – Impacts network bandwidth – Consumes lots of storage • Full backups overrun backup windows – Hurts productivity and application availability • Tedious, multi-step recovery • Expensive NDMP software licenses © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 4 Traditional Network-Based Backup with Proxy Server • Proxy backup server runs backup agent and resides on network • NAS volumes mounted through CIFS or NFS for backup to proxy server Less efficient due to excessive use of network to move data between systems