EMC Solutions for Backup to Disk Accelerating NAS Backup With EMC Celerra, MPFS, and EMC NetWorker

This paper describes the benefits of using MPFS with EMC NetWorker to accelerate EMC Ce1erra LAN backups and restores. The paper describes upgrading existing NAS backup infrastructure from legacy NFS access to LIvIC's more efficient MPFS product. This paper also presents comparative performance data from EMC internal testin2. Today's enterprises need to manage IT costs and reduce the risk of business disruption, therefore backing up data is an essential storage requirement in IT operations. Regular backups are necessary to restore data and resume critical business operations in the event that data is lost, destroyed, or corrupted. Enterprises face a daunting array of problems when they consider the best way to protect valuable data.