It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…
Introduction A seemingly straight-forward question, what constitutes a successful backup may not engender the same response from everyone you ask. On the surface,…
There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…
Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…
NetWorker 9 introduces a new action that can be incorporated into workflows, Check Connectivity. You can use this prior to a backup…
As mentioned in my introductory post about it, NetWorker 9 introduces the option to perform Block Based Backups (BBB) for Linux systems.…
If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…
One of the great new features in NetWorker is the integration of Instant Access, whereby virtual machines backed up with the VBA…
Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…