Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker

In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images…

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Basics – Change and Growth

I assume you’ve heard of the wheat and the chessboard problem. It often gets presented as part of the history of chess, or as…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Hello, 2019

Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…

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Staging Systems vs Backup Systems

Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…

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Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage

Introduction When you’re writing backups to tape, capacity reclamation is pretty straight forward (unless you’re using an archive product that…

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Data Protection Central 18.1

In the huge round of updates in June/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection…

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Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?

As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale…

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Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best

I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…

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