Book Drive

Every now and then I like to remind people of my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance…

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What’s wrong with vendor training?

A recent discussion on Twitter about the high costs of training from NetApp got me thinking more about vendor training.…

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RIP NetWare

Search Networking reports that Novell have finally announced the cessation of legacy installs of NetWare on physical machines ceases at…

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Cumulative patch clusters

In the last few days, cumulative patch clusters have been released for the following versions of NetWorker: 7.6 – Patch…

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Barcode categories create issues

Some sites get quite particular about their volume barcodes when it comes to physical media. This means you’ll see barcodes…

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NetWorker Survey Results

The first NetWorker Usage Survey for the NetWorker Information Hub ran between March 11 2010 and March 20 2010. During…

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Aside – NetWorker Documentation

After clearing with EMC (in this era of DMCA I like to get things cleared properly), I’m now hosting local…

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NetWorker Usage Survey – Don’t forget to vote!

The NetWorker Usage Survey will be closing in 2 days, and time is starting to run out to participate. You…

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The perils of an Icarus support contract

Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…

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Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement

Sometimes NetWorker may not want to cooperate when it comes to moving media in and out of drives, or around…

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