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Avamar 6.1 SP1 Product Update

Now Avamar 6.1 SP1 is now generally available, I think it is nice to summarize the stuff that is added compared to previous versions of EMC’s cloud backup & recovery solution.

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Avamar 6.0.1-65 Bug in adding nodes

This week I was adding Avamar 7.8TB nodes to existing Avamar Data Store Gen 4 Grids and I discovered a bug in adding and starting the new nodes. After adding and starting the nodes, the clients were redirected to the … Continue reading

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Avamar trunking: Avamar on a stick

A nice feature of the Avamar Datastore Generation 4, is that you can use trunks to connect multiple VLAN’s to the same Avamar backup port. When installing a fresh Avamar, you will do this using dpnnetutil, but when you need … Continue reading

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Installing Avamar Single Node Gen 4

The first Avamar grid I installed was an Avamar Gen 3 grid with different storage nodes connected to each other and an Avamar version 5 installation on top of it. When searching online for installation guides, there is not really … Continue reading

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Avamar Global Source Based De-duplication: How it works

I have been working with Avamar for 2 years now at different customer sites and the effects on today’s challenges regarding Backup & Recovery are great, thanks to the Global Source Based Data De-duplication Avamar gives you. At the dutch EMCForum in … Continue reading

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