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Maybe I’m just an old Unix hack…

 Preston de Guise  December 13, 2009  3 Comments on Maybe I’m just an old Unix hack…

In the land of Dilbert, I’d probably be obligated to wear suspenders and have my socks pulled up past my…

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 Posted in: Aside, General Technology  Tagged: Aside, bbedit, Trivia, vi

This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift

 Preston de Guise  December 11, 2009  4 Comments on This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift

As it approaches that time for giving, it’s worth pointing out that with just a simple purchase, you can simultaneously…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, General thoughts  Tagged: backup system, Book, Enterprise Backup

Long term NetWare recovery

 Preston de Guise  December 10, 2009

Are you still backing up Novell NetWare hosts? If you are, I hope you’re actively considering what you’re going to…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: 7.2, client, migrate, NetWare, Novell, OES, recover, recoverability, SLES, Support, Virtualised

…And why I’ll stick to Parallels

 Preston de Guise  December 9, 2009  4 Comments on …And why I’ll stick to Parallels

So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I’d been looking at first comparisons between VMware Fusion 3.0 and Parallels…

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 Posted in: General Technology  Tagged: Coherence, parallels, Unity, VMware, VMware Fusion

Funny attitude adjustments

 Preston de Guise  December 8, 2009  2 Comments on Funny attitude adjustments

It’s funny sometimes seeing attitude adjustments that come from various companies as they’re acquired by others. One could never say…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, General Technology  Tagged: data domain, tape

How complex is your backup environment?

 Preston de Guise  December 7, 2009  2 Comments on How complex is your backup environment?

Something I’ve periodically mentioned to various people over the years is that when it comes to data protection, simplicity is…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, General thoughts, Policies  Tagged: 30 second elevator pitch, back of napkin, environment, solution, summarise, system

Aside – This time, 10 years ago

 Preston de Guise  December 7, 2009

We’re now rapidly heading towards 2010. The world did not collapse at the start of the year 2000, thanks in…

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: 2009, 2010, consulting, Y2K

Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

 Preston de Guise  December 4, 2009  1 Comment on Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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 Posted in: Features, NetWorker, Scripting  Tagged: copies, mminfo, offsite, validcopies

Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker

 Preston de Guise  December 2, 2009  4 Comments on Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker

One of the areas where administrators have been rightly able to criticise NetWorker has been the lack of reporting or…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: 7.6, NetWorker 7.6, NetWorker Management Console, NMC, Recovery, recovery reporting, reporting

November’s top article

 Preston de Guise  December 1, 2009

November saw the article, “Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)” remain the top read story for another…

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 Posted in: Aside, NetWorker  Tagged: linuxvtl, November, VTL

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