All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!
In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…
Author: Preston de Guise
Availability and Uptime
Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…
Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups
Over at Backup Central, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS. The first,…
Get off 7.2 and 7.3
On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…
Search, search, search. It’s all about search.
You want my #1 prediction for this coming decade in storage? It’s not going to be dedupe, it’s not going…
Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed
Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database…
Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time
I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…
The A-Z of Backup and Recovery
I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…
The top 10 for 2009
Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…
Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small
A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…