Using NetWorker with Data Domain Retention Lock
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You know when you’ve got a secret herb or spice you use in a recipe that turns it from “this…
Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…
Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…
While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…
Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…
Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…
Ransomware is practically a fact of life. Criminals, script kiddies and other malfeasant individuals make a living from Ransomware. Businesses…
As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…
Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…
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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