Basics – device `X’ is marked as suspect
So I got myself into a bit of a kerfuffle today when I was doing some reboots in my home…
Birthday give-away competition
Towards the end of September each year, I get to celebrate another solar peregrination, and this year I’m celebrating it…
Basics – Understanding NetWorker Dependency Tracking
Dependency tracking is an absolutely essential feature within a backup product. It’s there to ensure you can recover data through…
Talking about Ransomware
The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…
Basics – Running Workflows Manually
It may be something to do with my long Unix background, or maybe it’s because my first system administration job…
NetWorker 9.2 Capacity Measurement
As I’ve mentioned in the past, there’s a few different licensing models for NetWorker, but capacity licensing (e.g., 100 TB…
NetWorker 9.2 – A Focused Release
NetWorker 9.2 has just been released. Now, normally I pride myself for having kicked the tyres on a new release…
Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup
It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…
Basics – File level recovery from Image Level Backup
I want to try something different with this post. Rather than the usual post with screen shots and descriptions, I…
Using ItemPoint Table Level Recovery with SQL Server
NetWorker 9 modules for SQL, Exchange and Sharepoint now make use of ItemPoint to support granular recovery. ItemPoint leverages NetWorker’s…