Backup is Insurance
As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…
Oh come on, pull the other one
I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…
Snapshots and Backups, Part 2
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Snapshots and Backups
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
iPad = iManage
You’d practically have to be Amish in order to not know that Apple today finally released their much anticipated tablet….
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…