Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore

A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…

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NetWorker 8.2 and VBA Instant-Access

One of the great new features in NetWorker is the integration of Instant Access, whereby virtual machines backed up with the VBA…

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A locale problem

I had a doozy of a problem a short while ago – NetWorker 8.2 in a big environment, and every…

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Backing up renamed directories

Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…

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Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs

One of the new features of NetWorker 8.2 is the expansion of Windows Block Based Backups (BBB) to support additional…

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The divisibility of eggs

The caution about keeping all of ones eggs in the one basket is a fairly common one. It’s also a…

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NetWorker 8: Synthetic fulls

The history of NetWorker and synthetic fulls is an odd one. For years, NetWorker had the concept of a ‘consolidated’…

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Recovery Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who provided responses into the recovery survey. It proved to be a very interesting insight into some…

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Recovery survey

We talk a lot about backups, but we all know that backups are done for one reason – to recover…

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Counting the numbers

How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…

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