Pool size and deduplication

When you start looking into deduplication, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is … size matters. In particular, the size of…

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NetWorker to the Cloud

Introduced alongside NetWorker 8.2 SP1 is integration with a new EMC product, CloudBoost. The purpose of CloudBoost is to allow a NetWorker…

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Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem

“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. — I…

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Upgrade times

We live in a world of activities. Particularly in IT, almost everything we do can at some point be summarised as being…

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Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1

Today I’m announcing the availability of Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1. As you can imagine from the version number, this is an…

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Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups

If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and…

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Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line

If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…

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Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore

A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…

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2014 NetWorker Usage Report

I’m pleased to say I’ve completed and made available the NetWorker usage report for 2014. I’m particularly grateful to everyone who took…

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Housing your software

I’ve admitted in the past I’m a bit of a data hoarder. That’s partly come from the reasonably abysmal download speeds…

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