Arranging by policy
A week before easter, I was doing some Powerplate exercises, nothing I hadn’t done hundreds of times before, when stepping…
Racing Backups
On your marks I’m not all that interested in sport. I grew up in a sports-mad family and spent a…
Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too
I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…
2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report
Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…
3 Simple Questions
In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…
Data Protection Central is Here
The world is changing, and data protection is changing with it. (OK, that sounds like an ad for Veridian Dynamics,…
Basics: Planning A Recovery Service
Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…
Basics – What’s a virtual synthetic full?
When NetWorker and Data Domain are working together, some operations can be done as a virtual synthetic full. It sounds like…
The Perils of Tape
In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…
Data Domain Management Centre
Data Domain Management Centre (DDMC) is a free virtual appliance available for customers with Data Domain to provide a web…