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Would you buy a dangerbase?

 Preston de Guise  June 7, 2017

Databases. They’re expensive, aren’t they? What if I sold you a Dangerbase instead? What’s a dangerbase!? I’m glad you asked. A dangerbase…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Policies  Tagged: Architecture, dangerbase, policy

Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

 Preston de Guise  June 5, 2017

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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 Posted in: Architecture  Tagged: cloud, deduplication, Distributed Deduplication, IaaS, public cloud

Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1)

 Preston de Guise  May 23, 2017  1 Comment on Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1)

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. In Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier I go through a few…

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 Posted in: Architecture  Tagged: cloud, Cloud Boost, Cloud Tier, VTL

What constitutes a successful backup?

 Preston de Guise  May 23, 2017  3 Comments on What constitutes a successful backup?

Introduction A seemingly straight-forward question, what constitutes a successful backup may not engender the same response from everyone you ask. On the surface,…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Best Practice  Tagged: Backup, success

Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance

 Preston de Guise  May 10, 2017

Dell EMC World is currently on in Las Vegas, and one of the most exciting announcements to come out of…

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 Posted in: Architecture  Tagged: IDPA

Architecture Matters: When you dedupe

 Preston de Guise  May 5, 2017  2 Comments on Architecture Matters: When you dedupe

There was a time, comparatively not that long ago, when the biggest governing factor in LAN capacity for a datacentre was…

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 Posted in: Architecture  Tagged: Architecture, deduplication, efficiency, network, performance

NetWorker 9.1.1 gets out the door

 Preston de Guise  May 2, 2017

I had a fairly full-on weekend so I missed this one – NetWorker 9.1.1 is now available. Being a minor…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: NetWorker, update

Basics – Compatibility Guide

 Preston de Guise  April 27, 2017  3 Comments on Basics – Compatibility Guide

Regardless of whether you’re new to NetWorker or have been using it for a long time, if there’s any change…

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 Posted in: Basics  Tagged: Basics, compatibility

NetWorker 9.1 FLR Web Interface

 Preston de Guise  April 4, 2017

Hey, don’t forget, my new book is available. Jam packed with information about protecting across all types of RPOs and RTOs, as…

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 Posted in: NVP, Recovery, vProxy  Tagged: 9.1, file level recovery, FLR, image level backup, NetWorker, NVP, VMware, vProxy

What to do on world backup day

 Preston de Guise  March 30, 2017

World backup day is approaching. (A few years ago now, someone came up with the idea of designating one day of the…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Best Practice, Recovery  Tagged: Recovery, world backup day

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