Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line

If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…

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Virtualised servers and storage nodes

A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long…

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How secure are your backups?

Backup security is – or rather should be a big requirement in any organisation. Sadly we still see periodic examples…

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Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore

A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…

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I’ve been Elected again

I’ve been running the NetWorker Blog since 2009, and since it started it’s grown to hundreds of articles in addition…

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2014 NetWorker Usage Report

I’m pleased to say I’ve completed and made available the NetWorker usage report for 2014. I’m particularly grateful to everyone who took…

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Housing your software

I’ve admitted in the past I’m a bit of a data hoarder. That’s partly come from the reasonably abysmal download speeds…

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Shared Data Domain Access

If you’ve come from a tape library environment, you’re well aware the only way to share a tape library between multiple…

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Happy birthday NetWorker 8.2 SP1

The Features NetWorker 8.2 SP1 became available today, and as is becoming traditional for an SP1 release of NetWorker, the…

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Client checking with nsradmin

I’ve probably looked at the man page for nsradmin a half dozen times since NetWorker 8.2 came out, and I’d not…

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