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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Backing up Oracle with NMDA

In previous posts I’ve talked about options around database backups – specifically whether you’d use a NetWorker module or say,…

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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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Betting the company

Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery…

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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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Who should handle your database backups?

I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…

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Client Load: Filesystem and Database Backups

A question I get asked periodically is “can I backup my filesystem and database at the same time?” As is…

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LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum

The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…

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Melbourne DPUG and VMware Data Protection

Recently a colleague and I initiated the Melbourne Data Protection User Group (DPUG). If you’re interested in joining and participating and…

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