Setting alarm bells ringing
As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…
37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”
The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…
Capacity planning – quickly or properly?
When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…
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…
Smoothing Fulls
A common convention in organisations is that full backups are run on the weekend – regardless of whether that’s every…
Aside: Icarus, revisited
A while ago I wrote about the “Perils of an Icarus Support Contract” … funnily enough, when I did, it…
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…
Pumping data
The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…
Deduplication and space management
Deduplication can create fantastic space saving opportunities within an environment, but it does also create the need for a much…
Writing, 2147483647 sessions
Somewhere along the way in NetWorker 7.6 SP1, an annoying reporting issue crept in where a device would report the…