#WhyIProtectWithDell

Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…

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Guess who else likes your backups in the Cloud?

Having just finished the excellent Dickinson series on Apple TV+, I keep getting one of Emily Dickinson’s most famous refrains…

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Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…

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Meme Monday

OK, it’s been a little while since I did a meme Monday, and there are s a few ones I…

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DON’T PANIC

One of the most important lessons I’ve learnt over the years in data protection is a simple caution: DON’T PANIC.…

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Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields

When you’re using NetWorker on the command line, one of the tools you’ll use most regularly is the mminfo command.…

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7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection

Years ago, back in the days when TV shows would take months, if not years, to appear in Australia after…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries

In this continuing PPDM basics series, I wanted to step you through the process of the following two activities: Performing…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups

I’ve been really looking forward to this demo video. When PPDM 19.3 was being worked on, I sat in a…

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Basics – PPDM DR, vCenter and VM Backup Policy

Introduction So in a previous post, I had a couple of videos that showed first, how to deploy the PPDM…

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