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Avamar Basics – VMware Changed Block Tracking Recoveries

 Preston de Guise  August 11, 2020

One of the most useful recoveries you can do in Avamar, NetWorker or PowerProtect Data Manager is the changed block…

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 Posted in: Avamar, Basics, Recovery  Tagged: avamar, CBT, changed block tracking, image backup, image level backup, Image Recovery, Recovery, VMware
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Avamar Basics – Recovering a Virtual Machine as a new Guest

 Preston de Guise  August 10, 2020

Have you used the Avamar HTML5 UI (AUI)? It’s such an easy to use interface, and I love the way…

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 Posted in: Avamar, Recovery  Tagged: avamar, image level backup, Image Recovery, VMware
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Backup Administrators Should Stick to Their Knitting

 Preston de Guise  August 4, 2020

How often do you hear the term “stick to your knitting!” these days? It seems whenever a celebrity or sportsperson…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Backup theory, Best Practice  Tagged: pattern, Workflow
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Basics – File-level recovery from agent-based backups in PPDM

 Preston de Guise  July 21, 2020  2 Comments on 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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 Posted in: Basics, PowerProtect, Recovery  Tagged: file level recovery, FLR, PPDM
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Basics – Getting NetWorker Client Details

 Preston de Guise  July 20, 2020

A question that comes up regularly is “how do I find out the NetWorker version and other details for my…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Scripting  Tagged: Basics, command line, Command Line Interface, NetWorker, nsradmin
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What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5?

 Preston de Guise  July 13, 2020  1 Comment on What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5?

Last week saw the release of PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) 19.5. That’s the fifth release of PPDM since its inception,…

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 Posted in: PowerProtect  Tagged: 19.5, PPDM, upgrade
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Basics – FLR from BBB in NWUI

 Preston de Guise  July 6, 2020

I’ve been mostly offline for a bit over a week. On Thursday 25 June my husband and I made the…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Recovery  Tagged: BBB, Block Based Backup, FLR, NWUI
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Basics – Using the NetWorker HTML UI for File-Level Recovery

 Preston de Guise  June 24, 2020  1 Comment on Basics – Using the NetWorker HTML UI for File-Level Recovery

One of the changes introduced in NetWorker 19.3 was the inclusion of file-level recoverability from traditional backups via the NetWorker…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Recovery  Tagged: FLR, NetWorker, NWUI, Recovery
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Data Protection Software 19.3 – What’s New?

 Preston de Guise  June 22, 2020  5 Comments on Data Protection Software 19.3 – What’s New?

Last week saw the release of version 19.3 of Dell Data Protection Software – Avamar, NetWorker, Data Protection Advisor and…

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 Posted in: Avamar, Data Protection Central, NetWorker  Tagged: 19.3, avamar, Data Protection Advisor, Data Protection Search, DPA, DPC, NetWorker, upgrade
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I’d like to speak to your CIPO, please

 Preston de Guise  June 9, 2020

Chief Information Officers. Chief Information Security Officers. You see those roles, and variants of them advertised all the time. And…

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 Posted in: Best Practice, General thoughts  Tagged: CIO, CIPO, CISO

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