Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier

Introduction There’s something slightly deceptive about the title for my blog post. Did you spot it? It’s: vs. It’s a common…

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Why do I need eCDM?

Why do I need eCDM? Your first question to me might be what is eCDM? Well, that’s a fair point – it’s…

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My cup runneth over

Introduction Note: I first wrote this in November 2016, but since this covers topics that comes up regularly with customers,…

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Falling in love with the IRS

Years ago when NetWorker Management Console was first introduced, Australians (and no doubt people in other countries with a similarly…

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Basics – Understanding NetWorker Architecture

With the NetWorker 9 architecture now almost 12 months old, I thought it was long past time I do a Basics…

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Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA

I’ve recently been doing some testing around Block Based Backups, and specifically recoveries from them. This has acted as an…

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How many copies do I need?

So you’ve got your primary data stored on one array and it replicates to another array. How many backup copies do…

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Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less

I’ve been working my way through a pretty intense cold the last few days. To avoid spending the entire weekend playing Minecraft…

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The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated

It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a…

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