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…
Category: Recovery
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…
A locale problem
I had a doozy of a problem a short while ago – NetWorker 8.2 in a big environment, and every…
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…
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…
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…
NetWorker 8: Synthetic fulls
The history of NetWorker and synthetic fulls is an odd one. For years, NetWorker had the concept of a ‘consolidated’…
Recovery Survey Results
Thanks to everyone who provided responses into the recovery survey. It proved to be a very interesting insight into some…
Recovery survey
We talk a lot about backups, but we all know that backups are done for one reason – to recover…
Counting the numbers
How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…