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…
Category: Best Practice
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…
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…
2015 – that’s a wrap!
As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection…
NetWorker 8.2 SP2 is here
While NetWorker 9 went DA at the end of September and is seeing healthy uptake around the world, NetWorker 8.2 is still…
NetWorker 9: The future of backup
Introduction When NetWorker 8 was released I said at the time it represented the biggest consolidated set of changes to NetWorker…
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…
The lazy admin
Are you an industriously busy backup administrator, or are you lazy? When I started in IT in 1996, it wasn’t…
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…