I’ve been mostly offline for a bit over a week. On Thursday 25 June my husband and I made the hardest choice we’d ever had to make in the almost 24 years we’ve been together. Our oldest cat, Stitch, was only a couple of months off his 17th birthday, but the last two years had been a hard slog for him. Diagnosed with diabetes in 2018, we were lucky enough to keep him with us for two years. Since his diagnosis, our lives had pretty much revolved around his needs – including twice-daily insulin injections, 5.30 am/5.30 pm. But other health problems were taking their toll, and we had to make the best choice for him.
So at 11.35 am on the 25th, he went to sleep in our arms for the final time, at our home in his favourite lounge.
For some people, pets are friends. For others, they’re family members, and sadly for others, they’re not much more than household ornaments. With no option to have kids, our cats aren’t just family members but are like children.
In Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud, I followed a different approach in my acknowledgements at the start, and wrote:
Then there’s Stitch and Cino: our cats. They have been with us now for three books, always loving unconditionally and often helping me with the review process. (Stitch in particular is fond of pens, and has watched and advised, right at my elbow, through many a book review session.) Particularly for those of us who do not have children, our pets form a significant part of our lives, and as the time approaches where I know both Stitch and Cino have significantly fewer years ahead of them than we have enjoyed together previously, I know they’ve made mine and Daz’s life better for their presence and devotion. There has has been many times since 2003 that the muse has returned after a quick cuddle or play, or where much needed headspace arrived after a nap with a purring bundle of fur. While they’ll never read this acknowledgement themselves, I always live in hope they understand, in some small way, how much they mean to Daz and I.
Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud, Ravi Das and Preston de Guise, ISBN 9781138393325, Auerbach Publications, 2019.
It’s been a reflective time since Stitch’s passing. This was a time when I was intending to post a succession of articles about new features in the updated Data Protection Software (NetWorker, Avamar, etc.), and also the just-released PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5. I am, as you can see, somewhat behind on that goal, and might be a while catching up.
In a previous post, I stepped through file-level recovery for traditional backups in the NetWorker HTML5 UI (NWUI). In this post, I’ve prepared a video showing file-level recovery from block-based backups.
In fact, to kick things off, here’s a video showing the client creation in the NWUI:
With the client created and slotted into a policy for BBB backup, here’s a walk-through of the recovery process, showing:
- Selecting the client
- Selecting the backup
- Browsing the backup to select files to recover
- Recovering the files
- Checking where the files are recovered to.
(You can click the captions above to go directly to the YouTube videos, and both are available in HD options.)