Adherents to the Repeated Meme

How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…

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Managing tape backup media lifecycles

Within backup there are typically two tape rotation policies. One policy applies to short term backups, and the other to…

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Melbourne NetWorker User?

Is your company based in Melbourne (or Victoria, generally), and make use of NetWorker? Do you need a backup healthcheck…

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Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape?

So you’ve got a pending message sitting there in NMC, NetWorker logs and nsrwatch: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to…

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International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia

Tuesday May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, otherwise known as IDAHO. I am proud of my…

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nsrwatch gets an update

Having used NetWorker since 1996, it’s fair to say that while I’ve watched a lot of features and interfaces in…

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Basics – NetWorker Server Client ID

When reviewing a customer’s logs today, I noticed yet another one of those minor (but great) changes that periodically get…

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There is no such thing as a backup failure

The backup world is, to use a quaint colloquialism, “arse about face“. So much of the talk in the backup…

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Where’s the “It gets better” storage industry video?

If you’re not aware of the “It gets better campaign”, one of the best videos to familiarise yourself with it…

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New NetWorker Technical Documents

(No, not micromanuals – official EMC Technical Notes for NetWorker.) EMC has been working hard at making very useful technical…

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