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Intro One of the things I’m keen to try in NetWorker 18.1 is the new Orchestrated Application Protection (OAP) feature…
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Intro One of the things I’m keen to try in NetWorker 18.1 is the new Orchestrated Application Protection (OAP) feature…
With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year…
NetWorker 9 modules for SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint now make use of ItemPoint to support granular recovery. ItemPoint leverages NetWorker’s…
In previous posts I’ve talked about options around database backups – specifically whether you’d use a NetWorker module or say,…
Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery…
A question I get asked periodically is “can I backup my filesystem and database at the same time?” As is…
As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection…
Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database…
Since I have more than a passing interest in databases, I always try to keep appraised of the Oracle module…
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