Snapshots and Backups

Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…

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Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode

(This is a local mirror posting of the guest blog piece I wrote for Parallels Consumer Tech Blog.) I made…

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All your data are belong to us

There’s a simple rule to remember when it comes to removable media handling (both within backups, and generally within IT)…

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January’s Top Post

I had hoped that the NetWorker Power User’s Guide to nsradmin micromanual might be popular enough to get say, at…

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nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found

Yesterday I experienced one of those weird NetWorker issues that is such an odd combination of factors that I felt…

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iPad = iManage

You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet.…

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A blast from the past

I had to briefly run up NetWorker 6.x this week in order to confirm that cross platform directed recovery really…

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Killing me softly? I never liked the song either.

Over at The Backup Blog, Scott Waterhouse offers an alternate perspective on why the announcement by IBM of an in-lab…

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Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery

A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself.…

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7.5.1.9 cumulative patch cluster released

Another update that happened to NetWorker while I was on holiday was 7.5.1.9 – 7.5 SP1 cumulative patch cluster 9.…

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