NetWorker Firewall Configuration on Windows

I’ve been involved with an increasing number of NetWorker 7.6 SP1 configurations on Windows 2008 R2, and I’m not sure…

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Smoothing Fulls

A common convention in organisations is that full backups are run on the weekend – regardless of whether that’s every…

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Aside: Icarus, revisited

A while ago I wrote about the “Perils of an Icarus Support Contract” … funnily enough, when I did, it…

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Aside: In praise of pbzip2

A while ago I got rather frustrated with the performance of compression utilities on my Mac Pro. It’s a bit…

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Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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Deduplication and space management

Deduplication can create fantastic space saving opportunities within an environment, but it does also create the need for a much…

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Writing, 2147483647 sessions

Somewhere along the way in NetWorker 7.6 SP1, an annoying reporting issue crept in where a device would report the…

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Differential backups and recoveries

Late last year while in New Zealand, I attended a {Product} Overview session. Unfortunately, I had to leave after an…

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What is a backup system?

One of the core concepts I try to drive home in my book is that you don’t get a backup…

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First impressions: Data Domain Boost

When IDATA was beta testing NetWorker 7.6 SP1, my colleagues in New Zealand were responsible for testing the DD/Boost functionality.…

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