Why upgrade clients?

The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that…

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Divorcing NMC from NetWorker

The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Optional storage nodes and/or dedicated storage nodes The NetWorker server…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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Large group backups

A very traditional approach to configuring automated backups in NetWorker is to make use of the schedule override feature in…

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ADV_FILE operational changes

As I mentioned in an earlier post, EMC have announced on their community forum that there are some major changes…

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Coming ADV_FILE changes

I had been aware for a while from an NDA conversation that these changes were on the way, but of…

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10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2)

In the previous article, I covered the first five of ten reasons why tape is still important. Now, let’s consider…

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10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1)

Various companies will spin you their “tape is dead” story, and I’m the first to admit that the use pattern…

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There is no magic bullet

The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin…

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LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel

The much long-anticipated wait for LTO-5 is now approaching fulfilment, with stories such as “Mass Production of Sony LTO-5 Media…

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