NetWorker Basics – Enhanced Webwatch

By the time I’d finished my previous webwatch, I was regretting that the third section of data I’d chosen to…

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NetWorker Basics – A Simple Prototype Web-Based nsrwatch

There’s a misconception at the moment that we’ve all naturally got tonnes of spare time on our hands because a…

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Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker

Most environments these days have a high percentage of virtualisation. It’s not uncommon to see 90% or more of all…

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#WhyIProtectWithDell

Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…

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Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…

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Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields

When you’re using NetWorker on the command line, one of the tools you’ll use most regularly is the mminfo command.…

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Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems

Introduction Dense filesystems are, without a doubt, the bane of the average backup administrator’s life. Everything in the environment is…

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Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries

While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…

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Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection

Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…

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Meme Monday

OK, let’s look at common data protection challenges through the eyes of memes again! I’m a big fan of backup…

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