Killing me softly? I never liked the song either.

Over at The Backup Blog, Scott Waterhouse offers an alternate perspective on why the announcement by IBM of an in-lab…

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Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery

A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself.…

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Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape

Any regular reader knows that I don’t for a minute believe that tape is dead. However, it is time to…

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Do you know your end of support dates?

I’ll presume for the moment that you’re aware of your actual end of support contract period. (Though, I’ll admit a…

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The importance of full backups

Having recently encountered a situation where a NetWorker client on a customer site repeatedly failed its full backup, I wanted…

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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…

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Get off 7.2 and 7.3

On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small

A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…

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