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Reclaiming Data Domain Space

Updated 28 Oct 2014 Read time 1 min 51 sec(s) (1388 visits).

This is a simple article that provides the command-line steps needed to manually reclaim space on a Data Domain system.

Introduction to Avamar and Data Domain system integration

Updated 21 Jan 2014 Read time 8 min(s) 36 sec(s) (4834 visits).

Beginning with Avamar 6.0 both Avamar and Data Domain systems are integrated through a single user interface, Avamar Administrator.

Data domain cleaning phases overview

Updated 22 Feb 2014 Read time 4 min(s) 40 sec(s) (3320 visits).

leaning is an important process on a data domain system. It is important because it is used to prevent over writing data.

Data Domain system clock

Updated 22 Feb 2014 Read time 1 min 9 sec(s) (3097 visits).

When using AD mode for CIFS access, the data domain system clock time cannot differ by more than five minutes.

Configuring a CIFS Share

Updated 21 Feb 2014 Read time 1 min 39 sec(s) (3811 visits).

This article describes how to create a CIFS share on the data domain system and how to troubleshoot access to it.

Scheduling cleaning on a Data Domain system - Best Practices

Updated 21 Feb 2004 Read time 4 min(s) 44 sec(s) (4449 visits).

Only a filesys clean operation reclaims the physical storage used by files that are deleted and that are not present in a snapshot.

Using CLI to identify disk state in a Data Domain system

Updated 17 Dec 2014 Read time 49 sec(s) (2490 visits).

This article describes how to identify the state of each disk drive in the Data Domain system using the command line interface (CLI).

Proactively failing a disk in Data Domain

Updated 24 Mar 2014 Read time 21 sec(s) (3211 visits).

Here's a quick procedure to proactively fail a disk in Data Domain

Replacing a failed disk drive in Data Domain

Updated 24 Mar 2014 Read time 59 sec(s) (4891 visits).

Here's a quick procedure to replace a failed disk drive in Data Domain.

NetWorker 8.1 Block Based Backup Configuration and Backup demo

Updated 10 Jul 2013 Read time 0 sec(s) (2377 visits).

This video walks through using the NetWorker Client Configuration wizard to create a client for Windows Block Based Backup to a Data Domain system

Setting the NOTSCAN flag on a volume in NetWorker

Updated 13 Nov 2014 Read time 1 min 2 sec(s) (3646 visits).

nsrim is unable to remove expired savesets which prevents data domain from performing housekeeping and prevents removing any data from the volumes

What is Data Domain deduplication?

Updated 27 Oct 2013 Read time 3 min(s) 3 sec(s) (2393 visits).

The basics is that we are eliminating redundant data, storing only one instance of each segment and using pointers to take the place of duplicates.

Data Domain license options

Updated 1 Nov 2013 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2906 visits).

This article simple ist the license optinos avilable for the EMC Data Domain product.

Data Domain Licensing Overview

Updated 9 Dec 2013 Read time 1 min 24 sec(s) (2431 visits).

Included with the data domain appliance are CIFS, NFS, global compression, local compression, MTrees, Snapshots and Fastcopy support

Avamar Integration with Data Domain

Updated 9 Dec 2013 Read time 2 min(s) 9 sec(s) (3058 visits).

Benefits of integrating an Avamar system with Data Domain on the backend would be a flexible architecture and lots of plugins for applications

Updated Data Domain documentation links

Updated 10 Mar 2015 Read time 29 sec(s) (2474 visits).

Yesterday, EMC announced updates to it's Data Domain documentation. Use the links to view the compatibility guides.

Troubleshooting Connecting to Data Domain System over Network

Updated 11 Jun 2014 Read time 1 min 34 sec(s) (2929 visits).

How to isolate the cause for the issue and identify the solution whilst connecting to the data domain system over a network.