Hearing hype? Do a TNB test

Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…

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Obligations were popular in September

Looking back over September, the most read/visited article was “The 7 Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators“. The goal of the…

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Using NetWorker for Live Search

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media…

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Is a “copy” a “backup”?

There’s been of discussions on various storage blogs both previously, and again now on whether a copy (e.g., a tarball,…

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Client side compression and saveset sizes

While it turned out to be unrelated, a recent customer question made me think back to the impact of client…

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LTO-5 Update

Despite recent claims that LTO-5 is at risk of being a dead format due to Imation being the first vendor…

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Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units

On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…

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Aside – Dust storms in NSW

On Wednesday, a large part of NSW was engulfed in a significant dust storm event. Having grown up in the…

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Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries

In environments with satellite offices, a common “backup” technique described in a lot of situations is what I’d generically call…

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Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts

Something I’ve seen a few people complain about – and indeed that I’ve also complained about in the past, is…

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