Decommissioning backup environments

Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…

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The designing of backup environments

The cockatrice was a legendary beast that was a two-legged dragon, with the head of a rooster that could, amongst…

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Check in – New Years Resolutions

In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…

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Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise

Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification…

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Why backup theory is important

Obviously the NetWorker Blog gets a lot of referrals from search engines via people looking specifically for help on particular…

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The top ten for 2011

It’s that time of the year where I sit back for a moment and look at what articles have attracted…

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Trial podcast

For some time I’ve been debating whether to generate podcasts for the NetWorker blog. Rather than continue to vacillate, I’ve…

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Ongoing trends with tape

When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…

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Where RIM went wrong

(Quick note: I posted this on my personal blog – insufficient coffees thus far this morning, and decided to repost…

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If you wouldn’t drink it, don’t cook with it…

This blog article has been moved across to the sister site, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery. Read it here. Related…

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