One target to rule them all
Introduction It’s true there are some data types that broadly aren’t suitable to sending to Data Domain – any more than they’re suitable for sending to…
Category: Backup theory
World backup day misses the point
It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of backup and recovery. So much so that a substantial part of the…
Service catalogues and backups
Service catalogues are sometimes seen as an unwieldy way of introducing order with a substantial risk of introducing red tape….
Virtualised servers and storage nodes
A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long…
NetWorker Usage Survey, 2014-2015
It’s that time of the year again where I ask my readers to set aside 5 minutes or so to…
Parallel Save Streams for HDFS Performance Gains
One of the great features in NetWorker 8.1 was Parallel Save Streams (PSS). This allows for a single High Density File System (HDFS) to…
Backing up renamed directories
Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…
The current state of virtual machine backups in NetWorker
Introduction There’s currently three distinct and still-supported mechanisms for backing up virtual machines in NetWorker. These are: Traditional (in-guest agent)…
Understanding Client Direct
Client direct is a (relatively) new feature, introduced in the 8.x series, (8.0 to be exact) which allows for a client…
Basics – Force incremental
In one of those “old dogs can learn new tricks” scenarios, or perhaps more correctly, “never believe it until you’ve read…