Availability and Uptime

Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…

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Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups

Over at Backup Central, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS. The first,…

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Get off 7.2 and 7.3

On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…

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Search, search, search. It’s all about search.

You want my #1 prediction for this coming decade in storage? It’s not going to be dedupe, it’s not going…

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Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed

Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small

A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…

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micromanual: NetWorker Power User Guide to nsradmin

I’m pleased to say that the first micromanual for the NetWorker Information Hub is now available for download. The micromanual…

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