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…
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….
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….
Cumulative patch release for 7.6
There’s been a cumulative patch release for NetWorker 7.6. This isn’t a service pack, but a bunch of patches on…
IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape
According to a press release, IBM have come up with a tape format which is so dense that it’ll fit…
Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape
Any regular reader knows that I don’t for a minute believe that tape is dead. However, it is time to…
Do you know your end of support dates?
I’ll presume for the moment that you’re aware of your actual end of support contract period. (Though, I’ll admit a…
NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups
There was a recent posting on the NetWorker mailing list regarding manual backups and whether they’re incrementals or not. The…
The importance of full backups
Having recently encountered a situation where a NetWorker client on a customer site repeatedly failed its full backup, I wanted…
Nybbles for the end of the week
Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…