World backup day misses the point
It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of backup and recovery. So much so that a substantial part of the…
Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups
If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and…
Service catalogues and backups
Service catalogues are sometimes seen as an unwieldy way of introducing order with a substantial risk of introducing red tape….
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…
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…
How secure are your backups?
Backup security is – or rather should be a big requirement in any organisation. Sadly we still see periodic examples…
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…
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…
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…
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…