28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups

Long-term retention backups, if not managed correctly, can represent a bit of a horror situation for businesses — they can…

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NetWorker Basics – Rolling your own Savesets

Did you know that NetWorker lets you ‘roll your own’ savesets? This functionality gives you a great deal of flexibility in customising your backup configuration to make critical datasets readily identifiable. Here’s how.

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NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates

If you’re doing image-based backups of virtual machines, it’s useful to see the actual change rate of those virtual machines.…

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How do you solve Protective Dissonance?

There’s a term in psychology you may have heard of – cognitive dissonance. It refers to having contradictory beliefs, or…

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PowerProtect Backup Service for Salesforce

Got Salesforce? Then you need PowerProtect Backup Service.

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NetWorker Basics – S3 as an AFTD Target

There are a few traditional ways you can backup to an S3 target via NetWorker. If you’re in the cloud,…

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NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI

NetWorker 19.3 introduced the option to redeploy VMware image-based backup proxies via the NWUI interface. Previously that functionality had been…

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NetWorker, DPA, DPC 19.5

It’s been almost a month since my last post — sorry about that! I’ve been a bit busy. And I…

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Avamar Basics – Using Post-Scripts

Sometimes you have to think outside the box to get just the right database backup. And functions like post-scripts can help you out.

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Understanding Cyber Resilience

It used to be that topics like cyber resilience were dropped in the IT security bucket. And it’s true that…

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