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What you should know about the Hidden Protected Area on IBM ThinkPad drives
On most ThinkPad hard drives is a segment called the Hidden Protected Area (HPA), which contains recovery data. Using disk imaging tools on a ThinkPad with a HPA can have unexpected consequences. Tip
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Allocate disk space properly for Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager (DPM), Microsoft's answer to the need for fast recovery of deleted or damaged files, requires two kinds of storage space for the data entities that it uses. If the disk space is not properly allocated, DPM won't work properly.... Tip
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Secondary backups from Veritas NetBackup, MP3 risk data loss
If you make secondary copies of your backups with Maintenance Pack 3 and either Veritas Software's NetBackup Server or NetBackup Enterprise Server 5.1, you run the risk of losing data, particularly if you use Virtual Tape Libraries. Tip
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Terabyte-plus hard drives too much for SMS 2003
When Microsoft designed SMS, it did not foresee that one day it would be used to manage hard drives with capacities larger than one terabyte. Today its built-in limit is creating problems for administrators. Tip
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Tape backups may have trouble keeping up with 64-bit systems
When you install Service Pack 1 on Windows Server 2003 for Itanium, your tape backups may slow dramatically. Here's the reason why, and what you can do about it. Tip
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WORM's crawl into the enterprise speeds up
Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) technology is becoming increasingly common in today's storage environments because of its ability to help companies meet regulatory and compliance requirements for preserving data in a provably unaltered format. Tip
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Storage pool savvy helps admins optimize Data Protection Manager
How well Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager performs disk-to-disk backup in a company depends on how well the storage administrator works with the storage pool. Tip
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Complying with SEC edict doesn't necessarily require WORM drives
An SEC rule requires public companies to store certain data and business records, including some e-mail, on non-erasable and non-rewritable media. To most people, that means write-once optical disks, or WORM drives. But there are less expensive optio... Tip
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Diamonds are forever, but not Active Directory backups
No matter how successful a backup turns out, it isn't permanent under Active Directory if you're using the Windows backup utility to back up a domain controller in a replicated environment. Tip
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Watch for unsupported data types in Data Protection Manager
If you're using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, for disk-based data recovery, here's a heads-up: DPM does not support certain common data types and, as yet, there's no workaround for the problem. Tip