When I used to be a system administrator, back when 2GB hard drives were the norm, I remember an Oracle…
Frequent visitors to this blog will be well aware of the various comments I’ve made about the impact of filesystems…
Bigger, faster, better. That’s one of the common catch-phrases of backup architecture. Backup window too small? Buy faster, and more…
Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…
This article might be summarised as: I wish Microsoft would pull their heads in and design better email client software.…
Those new to NetWorker may wonder what the purpose of the “/nsr/debug” directory is. When working in Windows environments, the…
Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…
The fantastic thing about NetWorker is that being a three-tier architecture, a datazone may encompass far more than just a…
Or, “In 5 years time will we reflect on VTLs as an example of a bad direction in data protection?”…