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Regular blog visitors will know that I think legacy applications and operating systems have a negative impact on the datacentre….
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Regular blog visitors will know that I think legacy applications and operating systems have a negative impact on the datacentre….
Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to use Avamar to protect S3/Bucket data. This time around, I’m going…
With the release of Data Protection Software 19.2 comes NetWorker 19.2. There are some great new features in NetWorker 19.2,…
When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,…
If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…
As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…
Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…
Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…
It’s that time! Data Protection Software 19.1 has been released. With new versions released simultaneously, that means there’s updates available…
Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…
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The Small One!
My latest book is The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery. This book is short and to the point, designed for people who are either responsible, or accountable for data recovery. You can buy from here.
The Big One!
The second edition of Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability is now available. It’s not just an update to existing content, there’s significant new information in this new edition. Buy here.
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