7.5.1 Cumulative patches

7.5.1 cumulative patches (i.e., patches on top of 7.5.1) have been made for most NetWorker platforms. While I don’t have…

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Mozying along

For my own personal data, I use a variety of backup and archival methods depending on the data I wish…

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Computer poster ads from the 1980’s

I found this on undrln.com – reference to a bunch of poster ads for computers from the early 80’s. Some…

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Nothing is simple

Over at The Daily WTF, there’s a great piece about debugging and 24×7 support for a weighbridge. Having dealt with…

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HSM implications for backup

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…

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Aside – Failures in Interface Design

Today I was rather happy to have my “new” Solaris/Sparc lab machine. It’s a Sun Blade 1500 – obviously it’s…

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Spacing out full backups

Bigger, faster, better. That’s one of the common catch-phrases of backup architecture. Backup window too small? Buy faster, and more…

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Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot more in the book

Just a reminder, particularly if you’re new to this blog, that if you’re after some more in-depth coverage of backups,…

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Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices

Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…

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Architectural failings of monolithic personal mail databases

This article might be summarised as: I wish Microsoft would pull their heads in and design better email client software.…

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