PowerProtect – Changing Data Protection

At Dell Technologies world, PowerProtect was announced. This is next generation data protection software and appliances; these aren’t just an…

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vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better

Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…

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Basics – Recovering SQL Databases as Files in Avamar

Introduction In an earlier post this week, I walked through the process of executing a file level restore of a…

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Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files

You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…

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Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks

Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…

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I can’t stand world backup day

Another year rolls around, and I yet again find myself facing an onslaught of “world backup day” posts. So yet…

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Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies

A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…

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Myspace Data Loss – Some Questions

While it’s been murmuring in the background, and something affected users have been well aware of for a while, over…

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Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?

Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…

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Proof of Concept: Docker with BoostFS

Docker: it’s where all the cool kids are playing these days (or so I’m told). It’s certainly got some good…

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