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NetWorker Basics – Enhanced Webwatch

 Preston de Guise  April 11, 2020  1 Comment on NetWorker Basics – Enhanced Webwatch

By the time I’d finished my previous webwatch, I was regretting that the third section of data I’d chosen to…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Scripting  Tagged: NetWorker, nsrwatch, REST API
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NetWorker Basics – A Simple Prototype Web-Based nsrwatch

 Preston de Guise  April 5, 2020  4 Comments on NetWorker Basics – A Simple Prototype Web-Based nsrwatch

There’s a misconception at the moment that we’ve all naturally got tonnes of spare time on our hands because a…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Scripting  Tagged: NetWorker, REST API
Virtual Machines

Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker

 Preston de Guise  March 30, 2020  3 Comments on Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker

Most environments these days have a high percentage of virtualisation. It’s not uncommon to see 90% or more of all…

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 Posted in: NetWorker, vProxy  Tagged: NetWorker, VMware
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#WhyIProtectWithDell

 Preston de Guise  March 16, 2020

Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…

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 Posted in: Avamar, Data Domain, NetWorker, PowerProtect, ProtectPoint  Tagged: avamar, data domain, NetWorker, PowerProtect, ProtectPoint, TSM, VMware
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Guess who else likes your backups in the Cloud?

 Preston de Guise  March 10, 2020

Having just finished the excellent Dickinson series on Apple TV+, I keep getting one of Emily Dickinson’s most famous refrains…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Backup theory, Cloud, Security  Tagged: Cloud Services, Security

Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

 Preston de Guise  March 9, 2020  4 Comments on Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…

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 Posted in: Avamar, Data Domain, Data Protection Central, NetWorker, PowerProtect
Facts and Myths

Meme Monday

 Preston de Guise  March 9, 2020

OK, it’s been a little while since I did a meme Monday, and there are s a few ones I…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Security  Tagged: capacity, capacity management, capacity plan, compatibility, ransomware, release notes, Security
Don't panic

DON’T PANIC

 Preston de Guise  March 3, 2020

One of the most important lessons I’ve learnt over the years in data protection is a simple caution: DON’T PANIC….

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: 42, Douglas Adams
Work harder, not smarter

Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields

 Preston de Guise  February 25, 2020

When you’re using NetWorker on the command line, one of the tools you’ll use most regularly is the mminfo command….

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker  Tagged: mminfo, savetime
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7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection

 Preston de Guise  February 23, 2020  1 Comment on 7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection

Years ago, back in the days when TV shows would take months, if not years, to appear in Australia after…

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 Posted in: General thoughts  Tagged: Backup, cloud, data protection, long term retention, public cloud, Retention

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