Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows
There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…
The law of least astonishment and backups
A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…
All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!
In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…
Availability and Uptime
Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…