Thinking green? Think tape

Many companies are now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of either achieving carbon neutrality, or at least being as…

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Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server

A topic I discuss in my book that’s worth touching on here is that of datazone security. Backup is one…

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Cautions for running NetWorker daemons manually

(An alternate title for this entry might be, “Now that dbgcommand is available, make sure you use it”.) The command…

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Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server

While doing a few tests for this blog on a lab server, I noticed what looked like odd behaviour –…

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Caveats for using high debug levels when investigating an issue

Or, remember quantum physics. There’s a basic rule of quantum physics, that being the observer effect – the more you…

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NetWorker 7.5 and changes to browse/retention times

Documented in the NetWorker 7.5 release notes, and a topic of much discussion at the moment on the NetWorker mailing…

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When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster?

In the past EMC have not so much “issued” cumulative patch clusters, but let them trickle out on an as-needs…

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In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems

Frequent visitors to this blog will be well aware of the various comments I’ve made about the impact of filesystems…

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7.5.1 Cumulative patches

7.5.1 cumulative patches (i.e., patches on top of 7.5.1) have been made for most NetWorker platforms. While I don’t have…

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HSM implications for backup

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…

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