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…
Category: Architecture
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…
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…
My cup runneth over
Introduction Note: I first wrote this in November 2016, but since this covers topics that comes up regularly with customers,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…