Long term NetWare recovery
Are you still backing up Novell NetWare hosts? If you are, I hope you’re actively considering what you’re going to…
Author: Preston de Guise
…And why I’ll stick to Parallels
So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I’d been looking at first comparisons between VMware Fusion 3.0 and Parallels…
Funny attitude adjustments
It’s funny sometimes seeing attitude adjustments that come from various companies as they’re acquired by others. One could never say…
How complex is your backup environment?
Something I’ve periodically mentioned to various people over the years is that when it comes to data protection, simplicity is…
Aside – This time, 10 years ago
We’re now rapidly heading towards 2010. The world did not collapse at the start of the year 2000, thanks in…
Validcopies hazardous to your sanity
While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…
Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker
One of the areas where administrators have been rightly able to criticise NetWorker has been the lack of reporting or…
November’s top article
November saw the article, “Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)” remain the top read story for another…
EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup
With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…
The lighter side…
In my spare time I tend to either write, watch a bit of TV or whip out my camera and…