Deduplication Usage in NetWorker

Following from my NetWorker Survey Results for 2013, I’ve been going through the survey data in more detail, and spotted…

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NetWorker Usage Survey 2013 Results

The results from the 2013 NetWorker Usage Survey are in, and the report is available. Continuing on from previous years,…

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What’s your test environment?

While virtualisation has introduced additional complexities into our lives from a backup perspective, you can’t argue with the benefits it…

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Spy vs Agent

Since VMware entered the server space, a simple problem has plagued backup administrators: Backup via a client installed in the VM? or…

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Data Domain: VTL vs Boost

If you’re looking at deploying Data Domain with NetWorker, but are coming from a physical tape or even an alternate…

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Data protection lessons from a tomato

Data protection lessons from a tomato? Have I gone mad? Bear with me. If you’ve done any ITIL training, the…

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Of accidental architectures

  EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…

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NetWorker 8.1 Overview

As is typically the case, EMC and my timing has been a little out of whack. They announced their “backup…

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Cloud and Backups

The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…

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All frameworks have limits

One of the most powerful aspects of NetWorker is that the entire design philosophy of the product is that of…

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