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I’m a two-phone person. I carry a phone for work, and my personal phone. Actually, both phones are mine because…
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I’m a two-phone person. I carry a phone for work, and my personal phone. Actually, both phones are mine because…
Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…
Introduction I admit, I’m riffing on Simon Sinek’s Start with Why? for the title of my blog post here, but…
Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…
Introduction In an earlier post this week, I walked through the process of executing a file level restore of a…
You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…
Of late I’ve been playing around a little bit with KVM. I must admit, it’s not really my virtualisation system…
Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…
In my previous post, I mentioned how NetWorker 18.1 introduces the WebUI. While NMC is still present in NetWorker 18.1,…
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The Small One!
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The Big One!
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