October Hits
(We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog article with a reminder that Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy…
Please, No!
So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…
Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge?
If you think you can’t go a day without hearing something about dedupe, you’re probably right. Whether it’s every vendor…
Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets?
NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…
Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle
Within NetWorker, data (savesets) can go through several stages in its lifecycle. Here’s a simple overview of those stages: The…
Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere
Over at TED, there’s a short yet highly interesting look at data visualisation technology called the AlloSphere. I’m a big…
Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3!
When I first mentioned probe based backups a while ago, I suggested that they’re going to be a bit of…
Enhancing RFEs
Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…
Don’t resent your log files!
There was a recent discussion on the NetWorker mailing list as to whether some additional logging information that appeared in…
Quibbles – Directive Management Redux
A while ago, I made a posting about a long-running annoyance I have with directive management in NetWorker. This time…