5 more considerations for deduplication

Recently I wrote, “7 common problems with deduplication“. That covered some of the practicalities that you need to be aware…

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NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results

With apologies for the delays, I’m pleased to announce that the report following the NetWorker Usage Survey in June/July 2011…

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Basics – Jobkill goes interactive

In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…

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7 common problems with deduplication

In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…

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Auditing should be done only by the experts

I’ve said it before – auditing should only be done by the experts. I first realised this when a security…

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The risk of change

Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…

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You’re not the boss of me

Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…

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NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011

It’s that semi-annual time of the year again when I ask you to take a few minutes to answer some…

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Melbourne NetWorker User?

Is your company based in Melbourne (or Victoria, generally), and make use of NetWorker? Do you need a backup healthcheck…

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Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape?

So you’ve got a pending message sitting there in NMC, NetWorker logs and nsrwatch: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to…

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