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19 May 2018

Introducing DobiMigrate CTA Bypass – Migration in Days, Not Weeks

The goal of the CTA has always been pretty straightforward, keep data that is meaningful to the business on high-speed, high-cost storage, and then use policies to transparently tier older, less-valuable data off to cheaper commodity storage [and then cloud storage].CTA accomplishes this by truncating the original file down to a very small pointer, often […]
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8 February 2018

Can You Do More Than 255?

In my role here at Datadobi, talking about moving, replicating, and syncing unstructured data all the time, I cannot begin to tell you how often I hear people ask if we can handle long file names or long path names.  They of course ask the question for a valid reason.  Many legacy tools cannot handle […]
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10 January 2018

Customers View of DobiMigrate Performance

One of the things that we love to talk about at Datadobi is migration performance. If you have been involved in any discussion with someone from our team it’s unlikely that you walked away without the knowledge that we are “10x faster than other solutions that exist on the market today”. Where does that come […]
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6 November 2017

The Impact of Timestamps

The Impact of Timestamps After initial data seeding, Datadobi’s DobiMiner Suite (DobiMigrate, DobiReplicate, and DobiSync) compares timestamps on file system objects residing on both the source and destination platform. These comparisons determine whether full data copies or metadata copies are required when executing differential operations synchronizing content on  the source and destination platforms. Intelligent use of these […]
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18 June 2017

Performance is the issue. DobiMigrate is the solution.

Tool performance has become the accepted bottle neck in any NAS migration scenario. We’ve all spent the obligatory weekends, late nights and early mornings migrating data only to be hindered by data migration tools that make migrations problematic and exponentially increase level of effort hours. This begs the question; If time is money, why spend […]
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4 April 2017

Trouble-shooting Methodologies and Errors in DobiMigrate

Scenario You have DobiMigrate installed, had some firewall ports opened to discover that last fileserver, straightened out security for your SMB credentials, and decided on the path structure on new hardware, and it’s clear sailing from here.  Your migrations are all set up, files are copying, and you’re feeling confident about your data migration endeavor. […]
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24 January 2017

The Mechanics of a WORM Data Migration

What is WORM? WORM (Write Once Read Many) is the practice of saving data that cannot be deleted until some period of time has elapsed. It’s intended largely to help organizations meet regulatory and legal retention requirements on their datasets. Such as: [fl_builder_insert_layout slug=”blog-accordion”]   My experience with WORM. The first WORM device I ever […]
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