Decommissioning backup environments

Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…

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Differentiating Differentials

Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…

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The designing of backup environments

The cockatrice was a legendary beast that was a two-legged dragon, with the head of a rooster that could, amongst…

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Using probes? Upgrade to 7.6 SP3 CR1

A while ago I became aware of some bugs to do with NetWorker probe based backups. While they worked without…

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Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope

I’d like to suggest that we should specify that “percentage complete” estimates – be they progress bars or sliders or…

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