Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries
In this continuing PPDM basics series, I wanted to step you through the process of the following two activities: Performing…
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Basics – PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups
I’ve been really looking forward to this demo video. When PPDM 19.3 was being worked on, I sat in a…
Basics – PPDM DR, vCenter and VM Backup Policy
Introduction So in a previous post, I had a couple of videos that showed first, how to deploy the PPDM…
Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems
Introduction Dense filesystems are, without a doubt, the bane of the average backup administrator’s life. Everything in the environment is…
Basics – PPDM 19.3 Deployment and Initial Setup
I needed to do some reconfiguration in my lab recently, and I decided that it was a prime opportunity for…
Basics – Helping the Elderly
Regular blog visitors will know that I think legacy applications and operating systems have a negative impact on the datacentre….
Basics – Upgrading to Data Protection Central 19.2
Data Protection Software 19.2 has been released, and included in that, of course, is v19.2 of Data Protection Central (DPC)….
Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details
When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,…
Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important
Here’s a topic that comes up from time to time: block size in deduplication. (Note here I’m using the term…
Basics: Handling a Failed Backup
Ideally, our backups work all the time without an issue. That’s an ideal situation. Then again, in an ideal situation,…