Basics – Helping the Elderly

Regular blog visitors will know that I think legacy applications and operating systems have a negative impact on the datacentre.…

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Basics – Using NetWorker to Protect S3 Bucket Data

Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to use Avamar to protect S3/Bucket data. This time around, I’m going…

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What’s New in NetWorker 19.2?

With the release of Data Protection Software 19.2 comes NetWorker 19.2. There are some great new features in NetWorker 19.2,…

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Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details

When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,…

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Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices

If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…

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NetWorker Pools with Data Domain

As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…

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NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate?

Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…

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Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker

Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…

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Data Protection Software 19.1

It’s that time! Data Protection Software 19.1 has been released. With new versions released simultaneously, that means there’s updates available…

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vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better

Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…

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