The scandalous truth about Clouds
Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…
Staging and Connectivity Loss
For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…
Basics – Default pool debugging 101
Many of us with NetWorker have been in the situation where a backup has started (particularly when it’s for a…
Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure?
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain. J.K. Rowling, “Harry…
Recovery is NOT #3
There’s a Top 10 Reasons marketing document from EMC now explaining why you should be using NetWorker. While obviously this…
Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss
The net has been rife with reports of an extreme data loss event occurring at Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile for the Sidekick service…
Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing
In many environments with storage nodes, a common requirement is to share backup devices between the server and/or storage nodes…
Uptime is an inappropriate metric
I’m going to start with a statement that may make some people angry. Some might suggest that I’m just goading…
A cautionary tale about changing pools
Sometimes I feel like a NetWorker old-timer. (When I don’t feel like a NetWorker old-timer, it doesn’t change the fact…
NetWorker Resource Relationships
With NetWorker having many components that can link together in a variety of ways, it’s not always easy (particularly for…