Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM

When it comes to backup and data protection, I like to think of myself as being somewhat of a stickler…

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Basics – Directed Recoveries

Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…

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Aside – Victoria Tourism

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not from Victoria; I hail from New South Wales in Australia, and there’s…

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What’s backup got to do with it?

Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that companies can make is to focus on their backup window. You might…

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NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux

When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it –…

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The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators

A while ago, I ran a post titled Ethical Obligations of Backup Administrators. Following up from that now I want…

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Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker

A few days ago a customer was having a rather odd problem. They’re currently running NetWorker 7.3.3 and getting ready…

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Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again

In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…

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British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing

Anyone who has either an understanding of the role that the computers played in World War II, or has a…

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Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk

In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current…

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