Using NetWorker with Data Domain Retention Lock

You know when you’ve got a secret herb or spice you use in a recipe that turns it from “this…

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#WhyIProtectWithDell

Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…

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Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…

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Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries

While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…

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Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection

Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…

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Meme Monday

Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…

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6 Reasons why Data Domain provides Unparalleled Ransomware Protection

Ransomware is practically a fact of life. Criminals, script kiddies and other malfeasant individuals make a living from Ransomware. Businesses…

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NetWorker Pools with Data Domain

As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…

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NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate?

Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…

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Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker

Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…

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