Basics – File-level recovery from agent-based backups in PPDM
A lot of the PPDM content I’ve shown thus far has revolved around virtual machine backups. But sometimes you need…
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A lot of the PPDM content I’ve shown thus far has revolved around virtual machine backups. But sometimes you need…
I’ve been mostly offline for a bit over a week. On Thursday 25 June my husband and I made the…
One of the changes introduced in NetWorker 19.3 was the inclusion of file-level recoverability from traditional backups via the NetWorker…
Here’s a really great function of NetWorker: being able to kick off the recovery of multiple virtual machines simultaneously. One…
Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on a project that’s very dear to me: creating an updated…
While Avamar has options for automating the test of virtual machine recoveries, it’s not functionality that’s present in NetWorker. Recently…
In this continuing PPDM basics series, I wanted to step you through the process of the following two activities: Performing…
While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…
OK, let’s look at common data protection challenges through the eyes of memes again! I’m a big fan of backup…
Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…
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