NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups

There was a recent posting on the NetWorker mailing list regarding manual backups and whether they’re incrementals or not. The…

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The importance of full backups

Having recently encountered a situation where a NetWorker client on a customer site repeatedly failed its full backup, I wanted…

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Nybbles for the end of the week

Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…

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Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows

There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…

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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…

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All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!

In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…

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Availability and Uptime

Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…

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Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups

Over at Backup Central, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS. The first,…

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Get off 7.2 and 7.3

On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…

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Search, search, search. It’s all about search.

You want my #1 prediction for this coming decade in storage? It’s not going to be dedupe, it’s not going…

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