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Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker

 Preston de Guise  July 11, 2016  7 Comments on Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker

Overview As I mentioned in the previous article, NetWorker 9 SP1 has introduced a REST API. I’ve never previously got around to…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Scripting  Tagged: NetWorker, Perl, REST API

NetWorker 9.0 SP1

 Preston de Guise  July 8, 2016  7 Comments on NetWorker 9.0 SP1

NetWorker 9.0 SP1 (aka “9.0.1”) was released at the end of June. I meant to blog about it pretty much as soon as…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: 9.0 SP1, 9.0.1, service pack, SP1, upgrade

Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups

 Preston de Guise  June 27, 2016  1 Comment on Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups

NetWorker 9 introduced a new, pure HTML5 web interface for the File Level Recovery interface for VBA, which works much…

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 Posted in: Linux, NetWorker, Recovery, VBA  Tagged: file level recovery, FLR, granular, image level backup, Linux, NetWorker 9, VMware

Betting the company

 Preston de Guise  June 15, 2016

Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Best Practice, Databases, General Technology  Tagged: agility, consulting, legacy, modernisation, Pivotal, Support

How many copies do I need?

 Preston de Guise  May 24, 2016

So you’ve got your primary data stored on one array and it replicates to another array. How many backup copies do…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Backup theory, Data loss  Tagged: copies, data protection, Duplication, protection

Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS

 Preston de Guise  May 11, 2016  2 Comments on Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS

Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…

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 Posted in: Basics, Recovery  Tagged: Backup, NFS, recover

Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less

 Preston de Guise  April 18, 2016  1 Comment on Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less

I’ve been working my way through a pretty intense cold the last few days. To avoid spending the entire weekend playing Minecraft…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Data Domain  Tagged: data domain, Data Domain Virtual Edition, DDVE, virtual

The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated

 Preston de Guise  April 13, 2016  1 Comment on The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated

It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Best Practice, General Technology  Tagged: automation

Data Domain Goes Virtual

 Preston de Guise  April 9, 2016  1 Comment on Data Domain Goes Virtual

This week was a big one for the data protection industry, with the official release of Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). DDVE offers…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Data Domain  Tagged: Data Domain Virtual Edition, DDVE

NetWorker 8.2 SP3

 Preston de Guise  March 30, 2016  7 Comments on NetWorker 8.2 SP3

At the start of the week we saw NetWorker 8.2 SP3 released. Now, you might think given NetWorker 9 is out there’s no…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: data domain, DDBoost, DDHA, DNS, HANA, Hitachi, Isilon, LTO7, Mac OS X, MySQL, NetApp, NetWorker, NetWorker 8, NetWorker 8.2 SP3, SQLite, Ultrium, Ultrium7

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