NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices

As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…

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Introducing NetWorker 8

Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…

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The one core problem with deduplication

[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…

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Healthy paranoia

Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…

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The problem with VADP

Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…

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ILP policies vs Backup Policies

This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…

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Counting the numbers

How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…

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Rage against the ravine

What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…

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Stop

The last 6 weeks my life has seemingly constantly been about interruptions. The house we’re renting has just been sold,…

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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes

When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…

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