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November 2024 (3)
- 18: What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.18? (0)
- 09: Exercises in Home IT and Atrial Fibrillation (0)
- 04: Assorted Musings (Episode 5) (0)
October 2024 (7)
- 23: Assorted Musings (Episode 4) (0)
- 22: What’s new in NetWorker 19.11 (and 19.10)? (0)
- 17: Assorted Musings (Episode 3) (0)
- 09: Assorted musings (Episode 2) (0)
- 06: Obduracy vs UX (0)
- 01: Assorted musings (Episode 1?) (0)
- 01: Notes of the Past (0)
September 2024 (1)
- 01: The (backup at the) end of the road (1)
August 2024 (2)
- 12: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 (4)
- 05: Aphantastic UX (0)
July 2024 (2)
- 22: In case of emergency (1)
- 07: PostgreSQL Backups with Pre-Scripts (0)
June 2024 (4)
- 23: Adventures in Solar (0)
- 16: By the Power of Process (0)
- 09: Using Scripts with Policies (1)
- 02: What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 (0)
May 2024 (1)
- 27: Of Home Labs and Commercial Ventures (1)
April 2024 (2)
- 16: Random Thoughts on Moving (0)
- 01: Dark Patterns and Creepy User Experiences (0)
February 2024 (1)
- 12: Book Giveaway Competition Winners (0)
January 2024 (2)
- 13: 19.15 Hits the Ground Running (0)
- 06: Two Years a Product Manager (0)
December 2023 (1)
- 17: Book Giveaway: The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery (1)
November 2023 (2)
- 26: Nagifications as a Lesson in User Experience (0)
- 07: Coming Soon: A book about recovery for busy people (1)
September 2023 (2)
- 10: Working in the Hour of the Wolf (0)
- 05: Working with Restore Plans (2)
August 2023 (1)
- 21: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 (1)
July 2023 (1)
- 05: Tidbits, July 2023 (2)
June 2023 (1)
- 12: What’s new in NetWorker 19.9? (1)
May 2023 (2)
- 15: End to End UX (0)
- 14: Autumnal Miscellany (0)
April 2023 (2)
- 25: Solving Tech Debt (0)
- 04: What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.13? (0)
March 2023 (2)
- 27: Data Hoarding is Probably Holding your Business Back (2)
- 13: Outage vs Outrage (1)
February 2023 (1)
- 13: Multi-Schedule Policies (4)
January 2023 (3)
- 31: Contemplating Complexity (0)
- 17: One Year a Product Manager (1)
- 16: What’s new in NetWorker 19.8, Avamar 19.8? (0)
November 2022 (2)
- 28: Ready, Set, DM5500 is Go (0)
- 14: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 (0)
October 2022 (3)
- 24: Basics – Of Asset Sources and Assets (0)
- 17: Dynamic NAS Protection (4)
- 10: DevOps and PowerProtect Data Manager (0)
September 2022 (2)
- 25: John Proctor and Data Breaches (1)
- 06: The Tender Art of Process Re-Evaluation (1)
August 2022 (3)
- 25: When planning for long term retention, look to the database model (1)
- 22: Meme Monday (0)
- 01: Cloud Tier gets Cold (0)
July 2022 (7)
- 25: Configuring the PowerProtect Data Manager Report Engine (4)
- 18: Using syslog in PowerProtect Data Manager (0)
- 18: Lessons from Product Management (3)
- 11: What’s new in NetWorker 19.7? (2)
- 11: What’s new in Avamar 19.7? (0)
- 05: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 – What’s New, and Updating (2)
- 05: Deploying Data Protection Central 19.7 (4)
June 2022 (2)
- 13: Good Ideas and Angular Friction (0)
- 06: What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.10 (2)
May 2022 (2)
- 15: Multi VM Instant Access (0)
- 09: What is Smart Scale? (1)
April 2022 (2)
- 17: Review: XMind — Mind Map Tool (2)
- 10: Death in the Digital Age (2)
March 2022 (2)
- 14: PowerProtect Data Manager Audit Logs (0)
- 07: Oracle and PowerProtect Data Manager (2)
January 2022 (3)
- 31: IT Skills: To Degree or not to Degree (0)
- 25: General Review: Fences (0)
- 24: NetWorker 19.6 At a Glance (0)
December 2021 (2)
- 21: 2021, a Lockdown Odyssey (4)
- 11: NetWorker Dedupe Stats, Redux (2)
November 2021 (1)
- 15: Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business (0)
October 2021 (4)
- 31: Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats (1)
- 19: NetWorker Basics – Policy Tree and Status (0)
- 11: When do I invoke Cyber Recovery? (1)
- 11: Keeping Cloud Data Protection Costs Low (0)
September 2021 (2)
- 27: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 – Revolutionary Protection for VMware (1)
- 15: Fundamental Decision Domains for Workload Migration (0)
August 2021 (4)
- 23: 28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups (0)
- 16: NetWorker Basics – Rolling your own Savesets (0)
- 09: NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates (3)
- 03: How do you solve Protective Dissonance? (0)
July 2021 (4)
- 26: PowerProtect Backup Service for Salesforce (0)
- 19: NetWorker Basics – S3 as an AFTD Target (1)
- 13: NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI (0)
- 12: NetWorker, DPA, DPC 19.5 (0)
June 2021 (1)
- 14: Avamar Basics – Using Post-Scripts (0)
May 2021 (5)
- 29: Understanding Cyber Resilience (0)
- 24: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.8 (2)
- 18: Basics – PowerProtect Data Manager vSphere Plugin (0)
- 11: Ransomware: Stop Counting on Cyber Insurance (4)
- 03: Basics – Avamar and Microsoft SQL Server Recoveries (0)
April 2021 (5)
- 27: Introductory Considerations to Cyber Resiliency (0)
- 19: Basics: Backup Lifecycle (1)
- 08: PowerProtect Backup Service Launches (1)
- 07: PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager Gets Deduplication (0)
- 07: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.7 (0)
March 2021 (6)
- 30: Data Protection and the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model (2)
- 22: Of Cascading Failures (1)
- 16: Avamar Basics – Command Line Restores using avtar (0)
- 15: Bad Things Happen (0)
- 08: Avamar Basics – Working with Pre-Backup Commands (0)
- 01: PowerProtect Data Manager Filesystem Agent – Installation and Recovery (1)
February 2021 (4)
- 20: Tools and Utilities Update (0)
- 16: NetWorker Basics – Let nsr_render_log B your friend (0)
- 06: Dreaming of 8-Bit: The Raspberry Pi 400 (1)
- 02: Cyber Vaults need Robust Recovery Processes and Documentation (0)
January 2021 (3)
- 27: Why Data Classification in Backup is Pointless (2)
- 18: The 9 Essential Properties of Backup (2)
- 06: Summer Holiday Adventures (0)
December 2020 (4)
- 22: Data Protection in 2020: Reflections (1)
- 18: Basics – NetWorker AFTD on NAS (2)
- 14: PowerProtect DD Series Appliances Updates (0)
- 07: NetWorker Volume Move (2)
November 2020 (5)
- 25: Basics – Retiring Clients in NetWorker 19.4 (0)
- 23: Basics – Compliance Retention with PowerProtect Data Manager (0)
- 17: Basics – Indexed File Recovery with NetWorker 19.4 NWUI (0)
- 16: Nineteen Point Four (0)
- 03: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.6 (3)
October 2020 (1)
- 06: NetWorker Basics – Getting More from nsrcapinfo (2)
September 2020 (4)
- 28: Bunkers vs Vaults (1)
- 15: Data Domain Basics – Hardening Password Controls (1)
- 10: DDOS 7.3 loves the Cloud (0)
- 04: Goodbye, Drobo (21)
August 2020 (4)
- 23: NetWorker Architecture Basics (0)
- 11: Avamar Basics – VMware Changed Block Tracking Recoveries (0)
- 10: Avamar Basics – Recovering a Virtual Machine as a new Guest (0)
- 04: Backup Administrators Should Stick to Their Knitting (0)
July 2020 (4)
- 21: Basics – File-level recovery from agent-based backups in PPDM (2)
- 20: Basics – Getting NetWorker Client Details (0)
- 13: What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5? (1)
- 06: Basics – FLR from BBB in NWUI (0)
June 2020 (4)
- 24: Basics – Using the NetWorker HTML UI for File-Level Recovery (1)
- 22: Data Protection Software 19.3 – What’s New? (5)
- 09: I’d like to speak to your CIPO, please (0)
- 02: This is not a political post (0)
May 2020 (6)
- 26: Using NetWorker with Data Domain Retention Lock (9)
- 25: Basics – NetWorker Multiple Virtual Machine Recovery Operation (2)
- 19: Basics – Showing NetWorker Dependencies (1)
- 12: Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability – 2nd Edition (5)
- 11: Meme Monday (0)
- 04: Automated Testing of Virtual Machine Recoveries using NetWorker (1)
April 2020 (5)
- 20: Of Pandemics, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity (0)
- 14: Say Hello to PowerProtect Data Manager 19.4 (1)
- 13: Meme Monday (0)
- 11: NetWorker Basics – Enhanced Webwatch (1)
- 05: NetWorker Basics – A Simple Prototype Web-Based nsrwatch (4)
March 2020 (6)
- 30: Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker (3)
- 16: #WhyIProtectWithDell (0)
- 10: Guess who else likes your backups in the Cloud? (0)
- 09: Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running (4)
- 09: Meme Monday (0)
- 03: DON’T PANIC (0)
February 2020 (7)
- 25: Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields (0)
- 23: 7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection (1)
- 23: Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries (0)
- 12: Basics – PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups (1)
- 10: Basics – PPDM DR, vCenter and VM Backup Policy (0)
- 05: Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems (12)
- 04: Of Milestones and Memories (2)
January 2020 (5)
- 30: Basics – PPDM 19.3 Deployment and Initial Setup (1)
- 27: Errata – Updated KVM Backup Script (0)
- 20: Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries (2)
- 13: The Perils of Myopic Optimism (0)
- 08: Australian Bushfires show the Precarious State of Modern Infrastructure (2)
December 2019 (8)
- 22: …and that’s a wrap for 2019 (0)
- 19: Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection (0)
- 18: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.3 (2)
- 16: Meme Monday (0)
- 12: Cloud is a Product Pivot (0)
- 09: Meme Monday (0)
- 03: Basics – Helping the Elderly (1)
- 02: Basics – Using NetWorker to Protect S3 Bucket Data (0)
November 2019 (8)
- 26: Basics – Using Avamar to Protect S3 Bucket Data (1)
- 25: Avamar Fitness Analyzer – Taking the Pulse of your Avamar Environment (0)
- 20: What’s New in Avamar 19.2? (0)
- 20: What’s New in NetWorker 19.2? (5)
- 19: Data Protection Memes (3)
- 18: Basics – Upgrading to Data Protection Central 19.2 (1)
- 13: Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details (4)
- 05: PowerProtect with Kubernetes (0)
October 2019 (5)
- 21: 6 Reasons why Data Domain provides Unparalleled Ransomware Protection (4)
- 18: Learning! From! The! Yahoo! Groups! Dumpster! Fire! (1)
- 14: Basics – Architecture Matters (0)
- 07: You want easy upgrades? Check out PowerProtect Data Manager (0)
- 03: PowerProtect Data Manager 19.2 (0)
September 2019 (5)
- 30: Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important (2)
- 26: PowerProtect DD. Unleash the Beast (0)
- 21: Two Things Apple Get Wrong Still With iOS (1)
- 16: Basics: Handling a Failed Backup (0)
- 09: Cloudy, with a chance of data-loss? (0)
August 2019 (1)
- 18: The Changing Face of Computers On Screen (1)
July 2019 (6)
- 29: PowerProtect Data Manager Quick Glance
- 29: Ransomware News (1)
- 20: The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse (0)
- 17: Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection (1)
- 06: The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection (2)
- 03: The 15 Minute Rule (0)
June 2019 (6)
- 25: Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices (0)
- 21: The Last Gasp of Windows 2008 (0)
- 19: NetWorker Pools with Data Domain (3)
- 16: Book Giveaway Competition (Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud) (3)
- 11: Linear tape (not-so) Open? (0)
- 04: NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate? (0)
May 2019 (5)
- 28: Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker (1)
- 25: Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud (0)
- 22: Data Protection Software 19.1 (0)
- 14: Start with “Why?” (0)
- 02: PowerProtect – Changing Data Protection (2)
April 2019 (4)
- 30: vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better (0)
- 17: Basics – Recovering SQL Databases as Files in Avamar (0)
- 16: Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files (3)
- 10: Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks (1)
March 2019 (7)
- 30: I can’t stand world backup day (0)
- 20: Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies (7)
- 19: Myspace Data Loss – Some Questions (1)
- 12: Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data? (0)
- 12: Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS (0)
- 05: Proof of Concept: Docker with BoostFS (1)
- 04: Understanding Database Backup Methods (4)
February 2019 (7)
- 25: Data Domain Virtual Edition Extends Multi-Cloud Support (1)
- 19: Basics – The FARR Model (3)
- 18: Basics – Dynamic VMware Policies with NetWorker 18.2 (0)
- 12: GDPR: Do your backups spark joy? (0)
- 08: Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker (0)
- 06: Data Domain 3300 Update (0)
- 04: Basics – Change and Growth (0)
January 2019 (5)
- 23: 10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes (0)
- 18: Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement (2)
- 15: Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies (0)
- 11: Reflections on 2018 (0)
- 09: Hello, 2019 (2)
December 2018 (5)
- 20: Data Protection Suite 18.2 (3)
- 13: Australia demands an end to data protection (3)
- 07: Staging Systems vs Backup Systems (0)
- 05: Multi-Systems Search (0)
- 04: Data Protection Search Overview (3)
November 2018 (2)
- 06: A Simple Linux KVM Backup Framework using NetWorker (1)
- 01: Basics – Avamar Client Logs (0)
October 2018 (6)
- 30: A Few Considerations Around Data Breaches in Australia (0)
- 26: Avamar 18.1 – A Stellar Interface (2)
- 23: Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage (0)
- 11: Data Protection Central 18.1 (0)
- 09: Basics – Numbers Matter (0)
- 02: Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node? (0)
September 2018 (4)
- 24: Continuous Data Protection for VMware Virtual Machines (1)
- 18: Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later? (0)
- 14: Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management (0)
- 07: Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM (0)
August 2018 (3)
- 27: Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best (0)
- 20: The House That No-One Built (0)
- 08: Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1 (1)
July 2018 (8)
- 30: Basics – Getting started with BoostFS (2)
- 29: Protecting your thoughts (0)
- 25: NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging (1)
- 20: Super backup in a box that’s really quite bodacious (1)
- 17: Basics – Handling Upgrades Through Data Domain Management Center (0)
- 14: Introduction to NetWorker 18.1 WebUI (3)
- 10: Christmas in July – A Bevy of Beautiful Updates (2)
- 09: What’s Cloud DR? (0)
June 2018 (2)
- 26: NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Options (4)
- 01: Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage? (0)
May 2018 (3)
- 27: Welcome to the Data Protection Hub (1)
- 24: Sandpits in enterprise data protection (0)
- 07: I Never Doubted My Protection (4)
April 2018 (1)
- 17: Arranging by policy (0)
March 2018 (4)
- 27: Racing Backups (5)
- 21: Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too (0)
- 17: 2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report (3)
- 13: 3 Simple Questions (0)
February 2018 (1)
- 07: Data Protection Central is Here (2)
January 2018 (4)
- 30: Basics: Planning A Recovery Service (0)
- 26: Basics – What’s a virtual synthetic full? (1)
- 23: The Perils of Tape
- 18: Data Domain Management Centre (1)
December 2017 (5)
- 30: 2017 in Review
- 19: Basics – Prior Recovery Details (0)
- 15: Cloud Snapshot Manager (0)
- 14: The rise of the hyperconverged administrator (0)
- 01: NetWorker 2017 Usage Survey
November 2017 (4)
- 23: What’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1? (0)
- 22: Basics – NMC VMware Viewer (0)
- 21: What’s up, doc? (1)
- 06: NetWorker Success Stories (0)
October 2017 (1)
- 10: Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection (0)
September 2017 (4)
- 28: Basics – device `X’ is marked as suspect (0)
- 27: Birthday give-away competition
- 16: Basics – Understanding NetWorker Dependency Tracking (0)
- 06: Talking about Ransomware (0)
August 2017 (2)
- 05: Basics – Running Workflows Manually (5)
- 03: NetWorker 9.2 Capacity Measurement (0)
July 2017 (4)
- 29: NetWorker 9.2 – A Focused Release (0)
- 24: Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup (0)
- 21: Basics – File level recovery from Image Level Backup (1)
- 11: Using ItemPoint Table Level Recovery with SQL Server (4)
June 2017 (2)
- 07: Would you buy a dangerbase? (0)
- 05: Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2) (0)
May 2017 (5)
- 23: Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1) (1)
- 23: What constitutes a successful backup? (3)
- 10: Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance (0)
- 05: Architecture Matters: When you dedupe (2)
- 02: NetWorker 9.1.1 gets out the door (0)
April 2017 (2)
- 27: Basics – Compatibility Guide (3)
- 04: NetWorker 9.1 FLR Web Interface (0)
March 2017 (5)
- 30: What to do on world backup day (0)
- 27: Data protection licensing (4)
- 22: What Queen can teach us about long term retention (4)
- 13: NetWorker Usage Report for 2016 (2)
- 10: The Rise of the New Risk (2)
February 2017 (3)
- 18: Build vs Buy (0)
- 12: GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures (7)
- 01: Ransomware is a fact of life (0)
January 2017 (4)
- 24: Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability (2)
- 13: Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier (6)
- 11: What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks? (3)
- 05: Why do I need eCDM? (0)
December 2016 (1)
- 23: Summer Fresh NetWorker 9.1 (7)
November 2016 (4)
- 30: NetWorker 2016 Usage Survey (6)
- 24: My cup runneth over (0)
- 16: Falling in love with the IRS (1)
- 14: Basics – Understanding NetWorker Architecture (0)
October 2016 (1)
- 18: Data Domain Updates (0)
September 2016 (2)
- 09: And now a word from my sponsor (0)
- 07: Backing up Oracle with NMDA (2)
August 2016 (1)
- 09: Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA (1)
July 2016 (2)
- 11: Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker (7)
- 08: NetWorker 9.0 SP1 (7)
June 2016 (2)
- 27: Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups (1)
- 15: Betting the company (0)
May 2016 (2)
- 24: How many copies do I need? (0)
- 11: Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS (2)
April 2016 (3)
- 18: Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less (1)
- 13: The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated (1)
- 09: Data Domain Goes Virtual (1)
March 2016 (3)
- 30: NetWorker 8.2 SP3 (7)
- 09: Who should handle your database backups? (2)
- 02: 2015 NetWorker Usage Report (6)
February 2016 (1)
- 03: Client Load: Filesystem and Database Backups (0)
January 2016 (1)
- 18: Data isn’t data isn’t data (0)
December 2015 (3)
- 22: 2015 – that’s a wrap! (2)
- 20: NetWorker Scales El Capitan (0)
- 01: NetWorker Usage Survey for 2015 (2)
November 2015 (2)
- 16: Recovering nsrd.info (0)
- 05: NetWorker 8.2 SP2 is here (1)
October 2015 (3)
- 27: Multihost consistent backups in NetWorker 9 (2)
- 26: Linux Block Based Backups in NetWorker 9 (2)
- 02: NetWorker 9: The future of backup (17)
September 2015 (2)
- 23: LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum (2)
- 20: Melbourne DPUG and VMware Data Protection (0)
August 2015 (2)
- 19: Updated checks in nsradmin (0)
- 03: Sampling device performance (0)
July 2015 (3)
- 13: Recovery survey (0)
- 11: The lazy admin (0)
- 07: Understanding NetWorker licensing options (0)
June 2015 (2)
- 30: Celebrating 25 years of NetWorker (1)
- 11: Tales from the trenches – Tape (2)
May 2015 (5)
- 25: Basics – Configuring a reports-only user (0)
- 20: Pool size and deduplication (0)
- 16: NetWorker to the Cloud (1)
- 13: One target to rule them all (0)
- 01: Files and files and files (2)
April 2015 (4)
- 30: New role (8)
- 27: Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem (0)
- 22: Upgrade times (5)
- 06: Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1 (9)
March 2015 (6)
- 30: World backup day misses the point (0)
- 26: Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups (0)
- 16: Service catalogues and backups (0)
- 10: Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line (0)
- 06: Virtualised servers and storage nodes (6)
- 02: How secure are your backups? (1)
February 2015 (5)
- 25: Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore (0)
- 24: I’ve been Elected again (0)
- 15: 2014 NetWorker Usage Report (1)
- 10: Housing your software (0)
- 02: Shared Data Domain Access (0)
January 2015 (4)
- 29: Happy birthday NetWorker 8.2 SP1 (0)
- 22: Client checking with nsradmin (3)
- 10: NetWorker 8.2 and VBA Instant-Access (1)
- 03: Turbocharged EMC NetWorker (1)
December 2014 (3)
- 29: The Data Protection Manifesto (0)
- 10: Records retention and NMC (0)
- 01: A locale problem (0)
November 2014 (2)
- 30: NetWorker Usage Survey, 2014-2015 (1)
- 18: Not so squeezy (0)
October 2014 (4)
- 27: Parallel Save Streams for HDFS Performance Gains (3)
- 23: Backing up renamed directories (2)
- 20: The current state of virtual machine backups in NetWorker (2)
- 06: Seeing in-flight encryption with Data Domain and NetWorker at work (7)
September 2014 (1)
- 01: Basics – Workflow for adding a new client (3)
August 2014 (4)
- 25: Architectural implications of in-flight Data Domain Boost encryption (0)
- 18: External NetWorker Authentication without AD (0)
- 15: Centralising Data Domain Logging (0)
- 04: Understanding Client Direct (2)
July 2014 (3)
- 22: Basics – Customising the NMC login screen (0)
- 19: Basics – Force incremental (2)
- 06: Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs (0)
June 2014 (2)
- 30: What’s new in 8.2? (0)
- 26: mminfo2html (3)
May 2014 (3)
- 28: …are you hiring? (6)
- 25: Rolling your own dedupe (2)
- 10: Stop, Collaborate and Listen (Shareware) (0)
April 2014 (2)
- 28: Stop, Collaborate and Listen (0)
- 25: A very blue upgrade (1)
March 2014 (1)
- 05: Seven enhancements I’d like to see in NetWorker (8)
February 2014 (4)
- 24: Data Domain Boost and Daily/Monthly Backups (5)
- 18: Deduplication Usage in NetWorker (1)
- 16: NetWorker Usage Survey 2013 Results (0)
- 09: What’s your test environment? (5)
January 2014 (1)
- 16: EMC Elect, 2014 (1)
December 2013 (1)
- 01: NetWorker Usage Survey, 2013 (2)
November 2013 (2)
- 16: Spy vs Agent (0)
- 07: Checkpoint your backups (4)
October 2013 (2)
- 30: Virtual synthetic fulls: A match made in heaven (0)
- 10: Data Domain: VTL vs Boost (2)
September 2013 (2)
- 07: Speed2Lead: Launch, not hypegasm (0)
- 04: The quickening (0)
August 2013 (3)
- 26: Casing the joint (0)
- 05: Avamar: Gym Built Version (0)
- 01: Notify me (0)
July 2013 (4)
- 25: Data protection lessons from a tomato (0)
- 20: Of accidental architectures (0)
- 12: NetWorker 8.1 Overview (6)
- 01: Happy anniversary, EMC and Legato (0)
May 2013 (1)
- 31: Cloud and Backups (2)
April 2013 (4)
- 22: Basics – Tape capacity and compression (5)
- 16: Basics – Old Savegroup Messages (0)
- 08: Debugging – device device daemons on a storage node (2)
- 01: NetWorker Tunnels (0)
February 2013 (1)
- 20: NetWorker Usage Report 2012 (0)
January 2013 (5)
- 30: Basics – Getting a bootstrap with every backup (6)
- 24: Best Practice – Groups (6)
- 16: EMC Elect (5)
- 14: Best Practice – Are index pools required? (2)
- 07: Best Practice – Pool content (1)
December 2012 (3)
- 11: NetWorker Usage Survey, 2012-2013 (10)
- 10: All frameworks have limits (0)
- 05: Our new home (0)
November 2012 (2)
- 27: The divisibility of eggs (0)
- 15: Enable me (2)
October 2012 (2)
- 22: NetWorker 8: Synthetic fulls (9)
- 07: Recovery Survey Results (3)
September 2012 (1)
- 16: Recovery survey (2)
August 2012 (1)
- 26: Site update (2)
July 2012 (5)
- 31: The hard questions (0)
- 31: Client side compression gets a squeeze (5)
- 12: NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices (11)
- 11: Introducing NetWorker 8 (5)
- 02: The IT organism (0)
June 2012 (4)
- 27: The one core problem with deduplication (4)
- 25: FUDtasia (0)
- 02: Crashplan (1)
- 01: Healthy paranoia (0)
May 2012 (3)
- 22: The problem with VADP (4)
- 15: ILP policies vs Backup Policies (0)
- 07: Monitoring vs Troubleshooting (4)
April 2012 (4)
- 25: Counting the numbers (0)
- 21: Rage against the ravine (1)
- 19: Training – it’s an uphill battle (0)
- 01: Every day is world recovery day (0)
March 2012 (3)
- 29: Stop (0)
- 15: A brief update (1)
- 07: 10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes (0)
February 2012 (5)
- 20: Decommissioning backup environments (0)
- 13: Differentiating Differentials (1)
- 07: The designing of backup environments (0)
- 04: Using probes? Upgrade to 7.6 SP3 CR1 (0)
- 01: Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope (2)
January 2012 (6)
- 31: Check in – New Years Resolutions (0)
- 27: Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise (1)
- 25: Basics – NetWorker and Push/Pull Recovery Models (0)
- 22: Dark Data (2)
- 14: Automedia Management in Tape Libraries (0)
- 09: 5 rules for upgrading NetWorker (4)
December 2011 (7)
- 30: Why backup theory is important (0)
- 27: 7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies (0)
- 21: The top ten for 2011 (3)
- 13: Trial podcast (5)
- 12: 10 NetWorker Configuration Rules (0)
- 05: Metrics you can depend on (2)
- 03: 7.6 SP3 – What’s in it for me? (3)
November 2011 (4)
- 22: Don’t eliminate the error (0)
- 14: Ongoing trends with tape (4)
- 09: Clouds and bandaids (0)
- 06: Questions about “big data” (0)
October 2011 (2)
- 28: 20 Common Misconceptions about Backup (1)
- 14: Where RIM went wrong (0)
September 2011 (6)
- 28: If you wouldn’t drink it, don’t cook with it… (0)
- 21: Taming dragons (0)
- 16: Should POETS day be special? (5)
- 08: Time to move (0)
- 04: Vendors without a message (2)
- 02: 5 more considerations for deduplication (2)
August 2011 (6)
- 30: Preparedness is not wastefulness (1)
- 24: But where does the DPA fit in? (3)
- 23: What don’t you backup? (4)
- 20: NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results (0)
- 15: Basics – Jobkill goes interactive (2)
- 07: 7 common problems with deduplication (6)
July 2011 (6)
- 28: Auditing should be done only by the experts (0)
- 21: Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning (0)
- 17: How indispensable is your company? (5)
- 15: The risk of change (1)
- 07: You’re not the boss of me (0)
- 06: Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix (0)
June 2011 (5)
- 22: NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011 (2)
- 21: This is wrong (2)
- 19: Technology is not the solution (0)
- 10: Adherents to the Repeated Meme (1)
- 05: Managing tape backup media lifecycles (3)
May 2011 (8)
- 26: Melbourne NetWorker User? (0)
- 20: Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape? (2)
- 16: International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (0)
- 11: nsrwatch gets an update (5)
- 10: Basics – NetWorker Server Client ID (0)
- 07: There is no such thing as a backup failure (0)
- 06: Where’s the “It gets better” storage industry video? (0)
- 05: New NetWorker Technical Documents (1)
April 2011 (10)
- 29: Did NetApp jump the shark? (3)
- 29: Partner is not a dirty word (0)
- 28: Book Drive (2)
- 19: Well, it performs – or performance? (0)
- 16: First, backup everything (3)
- 15: No Zero Error Policy? No backup system (2)
- 12: Technology is rarely the issue (5)
- 11: nsrjb -w -S 7 … aka, 7 weeks to go (2)
- 05: Psst! Want to touch my backup server? (0)
- 01: 5 questions for Drobo (0)
March 2011 (9)
- 31: Privacy? You don’t need any of that! (2)
- 29: The 7 Challenges of Data Protection (0)
- 21: Basics – Cloning vs Staging (0)
- 17: iTWire – Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner (0)
- 17: Killing scheduled cloning operations (6)
- 13: The virtue of persistence (5)
- 09: Survey – Virtual Backup Servers (10)
- 03: Setting alarm bells ringing (4)
- 02: 37 Signals and the “end of the IT department” (0)
February 2011 (9)
- 27: Capacity planning – quickly or properly? (2)
- 22: NetWorker Firewall Configuration on Windows (19)
- 19: Smoothing Fulls (2)
- 18: Aside: Icarus, revisited (0)
- 15: Aside: In praise of pbzip2 (2)
- 11: Pumping data (3)
- 09: Deduplication and space management (2)
- 06: Writing, 2147483647 sessions (0)
- 02: Differential backups and recoveries (0)
January 2011 (8)
- 25: What is a backup system? (5)
- 24: First impressions: Data Domain Boost (2)
- 18: Good enough, or perfect? (2)
- 14: Deleting with Reckless Abaddon (2)
- 13: Sisyphus, the Storage King (1)
- 11: An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive (1)
- 10: The importance of being archived (and deleted) (5)
- 04: A basic data lifecycle (5)
December 2010 (2)
- 23: Holiday Wrap-Up (3)
- 13: NetWorker Usage Survey Report (4)
November 2010 (6)
- 30: IT Strategies (1)
- 23: Who is your backup admin? (1)
- 17: NetWorker Usage Survey, November 2010 (1)
- 16: The real joy of consulting (0)
- 10: A tale of 4 vendors (9)
- 10: MMIA, not MIA (2)
October 2010 (5)
- 28: Debugging nsrmmd (2)
- 19: mminfo and NOT queries (4)
- 18: On special now! (1)
- 14: New micromanual – LinuxVTL and NetWorker (2)
- 04: Is bare metal recovery dead? (3)
September 2010 (3)
- 25: NetWorker 7.6 SP1 (26)
- 11: Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging (7)
- 02: Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth (2)
August 2010 (4)
- 23: First thoughts – NetWorker 7.5 SP3 AFTD Enhancements (0)
- 18: appliances vs Appliances (0)
- 06: NetWorker and CentOS (7)
- 05: Basics – Specifying a default Jukebox (0)
July 2010 (9)
- 30: What’s the point of enterprise, commercial Linux? (9)
- 27: Why I work in backups (2)
- 24: What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? (9)
- 22: An appeal for better manners (8)
- 20: Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X (5)
- 16: NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released (10)
- 14: The Half-Life of a Backup (0)
- 12: Know your environment (0)
- 07: Why upgrade clients? (5)
June 2010 (9)
- 30: Plenty of life left in tape (0)
- 28: Telling facts (0)
- 23: Microsoft, start your copiers (1)
- 23: Divorcing NMC from NetWorker (9)
- 22: Site outage (1)
- 15: 7 rules for system administrators (0)
- 09: Managing NetWorker from an iPad (3)
- 07: Error lifecycle management (0)
- 03: Virtualisation and testing (0)
May 2010 (7)
- 31: Site update (3)
- 15: Hiatus…? (0)
- 10: Large group backups (0)
- 07: Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold (2)
- 05: What’s missing with thin provisioning? (0)
- 04: 7.5.2 and ADV_FILE devices (7)
- 03: Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker (2)
April 2010 (17)
- 28: Client inactivity timeout is not group timeout (5)
- 26: ADV_FILE operational changes (7)
- 24: Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset (2)
- 22: RIP Solaris (9)
- 20: Coming ADV_FILE changes (6)
- 19: Basics – Skip and Forget (0)
- 16: Using NetWorker Client with Opensolaris (7)
- 14: 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2) (5)
- 13: nsrd.info forums (1)
- 12: 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1) (4)
- 09: There is no magic bullet (2)
- 09: Aside – An argument against internet censorship (1)
- 07: It’s a bit like fishy custard (0)
- 07: March, in a nutshell (0)
- 06: Basics – Previewing Directives (0)
- 02: EMC, Sun and Oracle (0)
- 01: NetWorker 7.6 SP1 (5)
March 2010 (19)
- 30: What a day! (0)
- 30: LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel (0)
- 28: Book Drive (0)
- 27: What’s wrong with vendor training? (1)
- 26: RIP NetWare (1)
- 25: Cumulative patch clusters (2)
- 24: Barcode categories create issues (3)
- 22: NetWorker Survey Results (7)
- 20: Aside – NetWorker Documentation (0)
- 18: NetWorker Usage Survey – Don’t forget to vote! (0)
- 17: The perils of an Icarus support contract (2)
- 15: Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement (2)
- 11: NetWorker survey (1)
- 11: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux (2)
- 09: NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do (1)
- 05: Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features (2)
- 03: ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies (3)
- 02: Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?
- 01: Aside – Top Stories for February (0)
February 2010 (17)
- 27: Basics – VTLs and default media sizes (0)
- 25: NetWorker 7.5.2 – What’s it got? (4)
- 24: NetWorker 7.5.2 (NetWorker 7.5 SP2) released (5)
- 22: Basics – Need a different volume from pool … (3)
- 20: Of Unicorns and Horses (0)
- 18: The case of Dell and the Interdicted Disks (3)
- 16: What should your toolkit look like? (0)
- 15: Aside – The Great Shrinking Disk Drive (0)
- 14: A new vendor battle (0)
- 13: Sometimes it’s not my problem (0)
- 11: Backup is Insurance (3)
- 10: Oh come on, pull the other one (0)
- 08: Snapshots and Backups, Part 2 (0)
- 06: Snapshots and Backups (6)
- 04: Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode (3)
- 02: All your data are belong to us (0)
- 01: January’s Top Post (0)
January 2010 (27)
- 30: nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found (2)
- 28: iPad = iManage (7)
- 28: A blast from the past (1)
- 27: Killing me softly? I never liked the song either. (2)
- 26: Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery (0)
- 25: 7.5.1.9 cumulative patch cluster released (0)
- 25: Cumulative patch release for 7.6 (0)
- 23: IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape (0)
- 22: Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape (4)
- 21: Do you know your end of support dates? (0)
- 20: NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups (1)
- 18: The importance of full backups (5)
- 17: Nybbles for the end of the week (2)
- 17: Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows (0)
- 15: The law of least astonishment and backups (0)
- 14: All this DeDupe is making me thirsty! (0)
- 13: Availability and Uptime (2)
- 12: Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups (1)
- 12: Get off 7.2 and 7.3 (3)
- 10: Search, search, search. It’s all about search. (0)
- 08: Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed (0)
- 08: Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time (7)
- 07: The A-Z of Backup and Recovery (0)
- 06: The top 10 for 2009 (0)
- 04: Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small (0)
- 04: micromanual: NetWorker Power User Guide to nsradmin (23)
- 01: What’s happening in 2010 (0)
December 2009 (26)
- 29: Let’s have a Green 2010 (0)
- 28: Going on holiday? Don’t upgrade first (2)
- 27: Introducing the NetWorker Information Hub (0)
- 27: NetWorker 7.6 and nsr_render_log (2)
- 25: Happy holidays (0)
- 23: What I’ve learnt this year… (2)
- 22: Overland Storage on the ropes? (0)
- 22: Welcome to the new site (2)
- 21: Seasons greetings from the NetWorker Blog (0)
- 21: Show me the man pages (4)
- 20: Aside – My Number #1 Pet Peeve in Interface Design (0)
- 18: What’s been happening this week? (2)
- 16: Pictorial representation of management happiness over OpEx cost savings (4)
- 15: Fingers Crossed for some New Years Resolutions from EMC (2)
- 15: The pros and cons of Legato License Manager (12)
- 14: 15 crazy things I never want to hear again (1)
- 13: Maybe I’m just an old Unix hack… (3)
- 11: This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift (4)
- 10: Long term NetWare recovery (0)
- 09: …And why I’ll stick to Parallels (4)
- 08: Funny attitude adjustments (2)
- 07: How complex is your backup environment? (2)
- 07: Aside – This time, 10 years ago (0)
- 04: Validcopies hazardous to your sanity (1)
- 02: Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker (4)
- 01: November’s top article (0)
November 2009 (31)
- 30: EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup (3)
- 28: The lighter side… (0)
- 28: Aside – Adobe Bloatware (2)
- 27: First thoughts – VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop v5 (11)
- 26: Nybbles (0)
- 25: Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE (2)
- 24: Storage Tiering vs ILM (2)
- 23: NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) (0)
- 21: NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring (7)
- 21: NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment (6)
- 19: SNMP is Simply Not My Problem (0)
- 18: Can you trust Azure? (2)
- 18: Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture (4)
- 16: Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI? (0)
- 14: NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux (11)
- 14: And I had thought it was some marketing stunt… (0)
- 13: Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID! (5)
- 13: Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X (0)
- 12: Merits of target based deduplication (5)
- 11: Lessons I’ve recently learned… (0)
- 10: The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery (0)
- 08: 20 years… (2)
- 08: Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF (0)
- 07: Maybe it’s just as well… (3)
- 06: Wait! Don’t apply that service pack! (0)
- 05: NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs (8)
- 04: Why you should love timesheets (0)
- 02: Why /nsr/tmp is wrong (0)
- 02: Google service and accountability in The Cloud (1)
- 01: The fall and decline of Microsoft (0)
- 01: October Hits (0)
October 2009 (25)
- 30: Please, No! (1)
- 28: Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge? (2)
- 27: Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets? (2)
- 26: Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle (0)
- 25: Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere (6)
- 23: Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3! (0)
- 22: Enhancing RFEs (6)
- 21: Don’t resent your log files! (0)
- 20: Quibbles – Directive Management Redux (1)
- 17: The scandalous truth about Clouds (2)
- 16: Staging and Connectivity Loss (2)
- 15: Basics – Default pool debugging 101 (0)
- 14: Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure? (5)
- 13: Recovery is NOT #3 (0)
- 12: Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss (2)
- 12: Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing (4)
- 09: Uptime is an inappropriate metric (4)
- 08: A cautionary tale about changing pools (0)
- 07: NetWorker Resource Relationships (0)
- 06: Charting vendor blogging contribution (0)
- 05: How much aren’t you backing up? (2)
- 04: Larry Ellison vs The Cloud (1)
- 03: Hearing hype? Do a TNB test (2)
- 02: Obligations were popular in September (0)
- 01: Using NetWorker for Live Search (0)
September 2009 (28)
- 30: Is a “copy” a “backup”? (0)
- 30: Client side compression and saveset sizes (2)
- 28: LTO-5 Update (0)
- 28: Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units (0)
- 26: Aside – Dust storms in NSW (0)
- 25: Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries (0)
- 24: Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts (4)
- 23: Aside – The exciting world of SSD (0)
- 23: Basics – Standalone drive auto media management (2)
- 22: Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM (6)
- 21: Basics – Directed Recoveries (5)
- 19: Aside – Victoria Tourism (0)
- 19: What’s backup got to do with it? (0)
- 18: NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux (0)
- 16: The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators (10)
- 15: Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker (0)
- 12: Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again (4)
- 11: British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing (2)
- 10: Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk (0)
- 09: You can’t escape cloning with cross-site backups (0)
- 08: Basics – Staging (2)
- 07: Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules (0)
- 05: Aside – EMC Acquires Kazeon (1)
- 03: Quibbles – Directive Management (4)
- 02: Basics – Auto media verify (0)
- 02: Book some time with the book (0)
- 01: Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla (1)
- 01: Most popular in August (0)
August 2009 (29)
- 30: (Semi) Aside – Interesting article on practical heuristics (0)
- 29: Basics – What inode did that file have when it was backed up? (2)
- 28: NetWorker and Snow Leopard (4)
- 27: Backup does not suck (1)
- 25: Zero Error Policy Management (2)
- 25: Backup is a production activity (3)
- 24: What does supported mean? (3)
- 22: Aside – Data Visualisation (2)
- 21: Cloud Computing vs The Network Computer (4)
- 20: Aside – District 9 (0)
- 20: Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting (0)
- 19: Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks (0)
- 18: Basics – Updates vs Upgrades (0)
- 17: NetWorker 7.4.5 – Should you update? (3)
- 17: What’s wrong with the NMC installation process? (0)
- 15: NetWorker 7.4.5 (0)
- 13: Wishlist – Server/Storage Node for Mac OS X (0)
- 13: Quibbles – Cloning and Staging (0)
- 11: What is a zero error policy? (15)
- 10: When will tape die? (7)
- 08: VTLs and media load/unload times (0)
- 07: Manual backups and the ‘quiet’ option (0)
- 05: Using the NetWorker Software Distribution Functionality (5)
- 04: Aside – Other World Computing (0)
- 04: Wish list – Extension to “scheduled backup” (1)
- 03: NetWorker 7.4.4.7 is out (0)
- 03: NetWorker vs Scratch pools (0)
- 02: Aside – The scourge of filesystems (2)
- 01: Last month’s top story (0)
July 2009 (29)
- 31: Aside – The decline of Microsoft (0)
- 31: SysAdmin appreciation day (1)
- 31: My worst recovery ever (0)
- 30: Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs? (0)
- 29: Aside – Evolution of Logos (0)
- 29: Sub-saveset checkpointing would be good (0)
- 28: Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options (9)
- 27: NetWorker Single Server Edition (0)
- 25: Aside – How much is a Petabyte? (0)
- 25: Mistakes you don’t want to make (0)
- 24: Using SELinux with NetWorker (2)
- 22: Of cascading failures and the need to test (0)
- 20: Aside – That old spindle problem (4)
- 20: Release notes are your friend (0)
- 19: Aside – Consulting tips (0)
- 17: Top 5 Reflections (10)
- 16: Quibbles – A better NetWorker init script would be nice… (3)
- 15: Directives and change control (0)
- 14: Aside – On second thoughts, escalate that please (0)
- 13: Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux) (32)
- 13: Basics – NetWorker differential levels (0)
- 11: Take a peek at Going Virtual (0)
- 10: Upgrading NetWorker and the ‘tmp’ directory (0)
- 09: Basics – Achieving higher frequency backups (2)
- 08: Basics – Null vs Skip Directives (2)
- 05: The Dual Evils – Malware, and Malware Protection (0)
- 03: Are you Monitoring RAP? (0)
- 02: Media, CapEx and OpEx (0)
- 01: My Personal NetWorker Wish List (4)
June 2009 (28)
- 30: Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism (2)
- 28: Backup is insurance (0)
- 27: Thinking green? Think tape (3)
- 26: Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server (1)
- 25: Cautions for running NetWorker daemons manually (0)
- 24: Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server (4)
- 22: Caveats for using high debug levels when investigating an issue (0)
- 21: Great VMware coverage (0)
- 21: Aside – Who will mourn traditional news? (0)
- 20: Aside – Siftables (TED) (0)
- 20: NetWorker 7.5 and changes to browse/retention times (0)
- 19: When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster? (0)
- 17: In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems (5)
- 16: 7.5.1 Cumulative patches (2)
- 14: Mozying along (2)
- 13: Computer poster ads from the 1980’s (0)
- 12: Nothing is simple (0)
- 11: HSM implications for backup (2)
- 10: Aside – Failures in Interface Design (0)
- 09: Spacing out full backups (0)
- 08: Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot more in the book (0)
- 06: Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices (12)
- 05: Architectural failings of monolithic personal mail databases (7)
- 04: In memory of Tiananmen Square (0)
- 04: (In)securing your daemon.raw with nsr_render_log -z (2)
- 03: What is /nsr/debug? (3)
- 02: Sydney to Perth Lambretta Ride for Cancer Funding (0)
- 01: Debugging autochanger operations (0)
May 2009 (25)
- 29: Should you use NAS for disk backup? (3)
- 29: Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs (1)
- 27: Basics – Important mminfo fields (0)
- 26: Using yum to install NetWorker on Linux (3)
- 25: Impact of high speed tape on backup (0)
- 23: Finding files in your indices (2)
- 22: Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs (5)
- 21: Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup? (0)
- 20: Why I’ll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes (1)
- 19: Aside – International data roaming (0)
- 18: Backups are not about being miserly (4)
- 17: Basics – Stopping and restarting NetWorker on Mac OS X (0)
- 15: Keep your logs (1)
- 14: Leaving on a jet plane (0)
- 14: When should you clean your drives? (3)
- 13: Basics – mmpool (2)
- 13: Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher (2)
- 11: Dealing with low-bandwidth connection to storage nodes (0)
- 11: Aside – Marketing (0)
- 10: Determining your NetWorker binary build details (0)
- 09: Aside – Are voice command interfaces the way of the future? (2)
- 09: Aside – Nomenclature page (0)
- 07: NetWorker 7.5 and Oracle Module 5 (19)
- 06: Merits of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) (1)
- 04: Client operating systems should not be changed (1)
April 2009 (16)
- 29: Screen shots don’t constitute logs (0)
- 28: Basics – nsrlic (0)
- 26: Meet your library (0)
- 25: Aside – Keyboards (5)
- 25: 7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file (7)
- 23: Ready for {reading|writing}, idle (0)
- 22: Why interfaces must be beautiful as well as functional (0)
- 22: Recovering with scanner and uasm (2)
- 20: Basics – nsraddadmin (0)
- 16: Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios (4)
- 15: Fiji (0)
- 15: Aside – the three rules of good coffee (4)
- 15: NetWorker 7.5.1, Software Repository and Solaris x86/Solaris AMD (0)
- 08: Basics – jbverify (0)
- 03: Basics – no_striped_recover (0)
- 02: Zeroth tier: the backup director (0)
March 2009 (20)
- 31: SciFi without Asimov’s laws of robotics (0)
- 31: NetWorker 7.5.1 Released (10)
- 30: Expecting a more complete backup (7)
- 28: EMC helping out Quantum (0)
- 28: You know what would be great…? (0)
- 26: Basics – No two groups should start simultaneously (2)
- 24: NetWorker’s little brother gets a pair of long pants (0)
- 22: Basics – Using datazone encryption with NetWorker (4)
- 20: Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot more in the book (0)
- 19: Thoughts on IBM and Sun in acquisition discussions… (0)
- 19: Ethical obligations of backup administrators (1)
- 14: Is your LTO media compatible with your drives? (0)
- 12: Quibbles – Client GUI (4)
- 10: What would you like to see in advanced training? (3)
- 09: Basics – Setting cleaning tape usage/registering a cleaning tape (0)
- 06: Aside – My take on Time Machine (1)
- 05: Does your backup administrator have a say in change control? (1)
- 03: Basics – Remote Control (0)
- 02: Space occupied by inactive files (0)
- 01: An old dog can always learn new tricks (rpcinfo) (0)
February 2009 (32)
- 27: Basics – Commands you should know Part 2 (0)
- 26: Is your backup server fast enough? (2)
- 25: Index backups for recovery (5)
- 25: Recording Client IDs (0)
- 25: Tape libraries and the hidden speeds (0)
- 24: Traps when upgrading from 7.3.x to 7.4.x – CDI (2)
- 23: Basics – Fixing “NSR peer information” errors (29)
- 21: Recommended reading: Asimov’s 3 laws unsafe (2)
- 21: Yet another “tape is dead” story. Ho-hum. (0)
- 21: Aside – How I stay organised (4)
- 20: Audit is not a 4-letter word (0)
- 19: Getting jobquery to talk to you (1)
- 18: Basics – Commands you should know (3)
- 17: Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker (27)
- 16: Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times (14)
- 13: Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes (10)
- 12: Basics – Why nsrwatch is still needed (0)
- 12: Quibbles – I know I’m depositing tapes, dummy! (0)
- 11: Basics – Stopping and starting NetWorker from the Windows command line (1)
- 10: Timeout – Victorian Bush Fire Relief (0)
- 10: Basics – dbgcommand (1)
- 09: Picking the best backup server (0)
- 09: Offsite your bootstrap reports (0)
- 08: Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag (0)
- 08: 9 brain habits you didn’t realise you had (0)
- 07: Distribution plug – SME Server (3)
- 07: The naming of backup servers (0)
- 05: Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk (2)
- 04: Recommended reading (2)
- 03: Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units (2)
- 02: nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows (0)
- 01: Basics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than (7)
January 2009 (8)
- 29: How important is it to clone? (11)
- 27: Basics – Listing files in a backup (5)
- 25: Using probe based backups in NetWorker (1)
- 25: NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X (0)
- 25: NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem (1)
- 25: Learning NetWorker (4)
- 25: Instantiating savesets (13)
- 25: How old is your media? (0)

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