Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems

Introduction Dense filesystems are, without a doubt, the bane of the average backup administrator’s life. Everything in the environment is…

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Of Milestones and Memories

So, something happened last month that I’ve only just noticed – I’ve gone over 2,000,000 hits on this blog. I think…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 Deployment and Initial Setup

I needed to do some reconfiguration in my lab recently, and I decided that it was a prime opportunity for…

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Errata – Updated KVM Backup Script

So, when I was putting together a blog post last week on NetWorker compressed recoveries, I noticed the KVM Backup…

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Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries

While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…

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The Perils of Myopic Optimism

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Australian Bushfires show the Precarious State of Modern Infrastructure

Having grown up in rural regions, I’ve found myself glued to coverage of the bushfires raging throughout Australia at the…

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…and that’s a wrap for 2019

So, that’s it for 2019, for me at least. This isn’t really going to be a post about data protection…

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Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection

Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.3

If you thought Dell EMC was done with product releases for 2019 with the recent Data Protection Software updates, you…

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