Basics – Running Workflows Manually

It may be something to do with my long Unix background, or maybe it’s because my first system administration job…

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NetWorker 9.2 Capacity Measurement

As I’ve mentioned in the past, there’s a few different licensing models for NetWorker, but capacity licensing (e.g., 100 TB…

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NetWorker 9.2 – A Focused Release

NetWorker 9.2 has just been released. Now, normally I pride myself for having kicked the tyres on a new release…

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Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup

It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…

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Basics – File level recovery from Image Level Backup

I want to try something different with this post. Rather than the usual post with screen shots and descriptions, I…

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Using ItemPoint Table Level Recovery with SQL Server

NetWorker 9 modules for SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint now make use of ItemPoint to support granular recovery. ItemPoint leverages NetWorker’s…

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Would you buy a dangerbase?

Databases. They’re expensive, aren’t they? What if I sold you a Dangerbase instead? What’s a dangerbase!? I’m glad you asked. A dangerbase…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1)

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. In Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier I go through a few…

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What constitutes a successful backup?

Introduction A seemingly straight-forward question, what constitutes a successful backup may not engender the same response from everyone you ask. On the surface,…

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