What to do on world backup day
World backup day is approaching. (A few years ago now, someone came up with the idea of designating one day of the…
Category: Recovery
GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures
On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…
Backing up Oracle with NMDA
In previous posts I’ve talked about options around database backups – specifically whether you’d use a NetWorker module or say,…
Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA
I’ve recently been doing some testing around Block Based Backups, and specifically recoveries from them. This has acted as an…
Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups
NetWorker 9 introduced a new, pure HTML5 web interface for the File Level Recovery interface for VBA, which works much…
Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS
Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…
Who should handle your database backups?
I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…
2015 – that’s a wrap!
As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection…
NetWorker 9: The future of backup
Introduction When NetWorker 8 was released I said at the time it represented the biggest consolidated set of changes to NetWorker…
Recovery survey
Back in 2012, I ran a survey to gauge some basic details about recovery practices within organisations. (The report from that survey…