Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too

I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…

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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes

When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…

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Check in – New Years Resolutions

In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…

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7 common problems with deduplication

In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…

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Basics – Need a different volume from pool …

The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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