NetWorker 19.6 At a Glance

I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus over the past month. 2021 was a pretty busy year for…

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2021, a Lockdown Odyssey

It’s a wrap for posts from the Data Protection blog for 2021, but if you’ll indulge me for a moment,…

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NetWorker Dedupe Stats, Redux

Where we’re at A few weeks ago I posted a (lengthy) Perl script (and explanation) for running deduplication analysis against…

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Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business

I’ve seen a lot of talk lately of data hoarding. Data can bring us new insights, new business opportunities, and…

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Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats

If you use NetWorker with Data Domain, you’ve probably sometimes wanted to know which of your clients have the best…

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NetWorker Basics – Policy Tree and Status

The nsrpolicy tool is remarkably powerful, allowing you to create edit and view policy details rapidly from the command line…

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When do I invoke Cyber Recovery?

Introduction Here’s a question I get asked quite frequently: “If we have a vault, how will the vault team know…

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Keeping Cloud Data Protection Costs Low

The NIST Cloud Computing framework defines the following essential characteristics of cloud computing: On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 – Revolutionary Protection for VMware

Introduction In Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd says to James Bond, “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the…

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Fundamental Decision Domains for Workload Migration

What do I mean by workload migration? We hear about workload migration all the time, particularly as businesses continue to…

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