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ESG LAB VALIDATION

Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by CommVault

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FIGURE 9. RESTORING A SINGLE ACTIVE DIRECTORY OBJECT

ESG verified that Sally Smith‘s Active Directory properties were recovered correctly and the deleted user‘s profile

was restored.

Source: ESG Research Report, Data Protection Market Trends, 2008

Why This Matters

The majority of organizations believe mission-critical data is at risk. In fact, ESG has found that more than

50% of organizations surveyed worry that their backup schedules leave some data exposed to potential

loss.

The survey also reported that the two application categories with the greatest data protection

challenges are databases (46%) and e-mail/messaging (41%). The Dell PowerVault DL2000 Powered by

CommVault is specifically designed to protect these and other mission critical applications.

With CommVault‘s single step object-level recovery, ESG Lab was able to use the DL2000 to recover a

message deleted from a user‘s Inbox, restore a folder from a SharePoint installation, and restore users‘

Active Directory attributes from single-pass, full database backups. Since CommVault‘s simple search

capability spans applications, searching for and selecting individual files, application items, and database

objects for restoration was fast and easy. CommVault‘s ability to restore only what needed to be recovered

from single-pass database level backups is very powerful, yet still fast and easy to perform.