Training – it’s an uphill battle

To be perfectly blunt, staff training in backup and recovery products is somewhat of an uphill battle. There’s a commonly…

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Every day is world recovery day

World backup day was established last year as a means of trying to encourage everyone to focus on backups. Personally…

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Stop

The last 6 weeks my life has seemingly constantly been about interruptions. The house we’re renting has just been sold,…

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A brief update

I’ve been pretty quiet of late on the site, and it’s not through a lack of interest. Unfortunately there’s several…

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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes

When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…

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Decommissioning backup environments

Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…

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Differentiating Differentials

Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…

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The designing of backup environments

The cockatrice was a legendary beast that was a two-legged dragon, with the head of a rooster that could, amongst…

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Using probes? Upgrade to 7.6 SP3 CR1

A while ago I became aware of some bugs to do with NetWorker probe based backups. While they worked without…

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Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope

I’d like to suggest that we should specify that “percentage complete” estimates – be they progress bars or sliders or…

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