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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Aside – The exciting world of SSD

The Register has some coverage at the moment of Intel demonstrating a (highly customised/optimised) 7 disk SSD configuration which delivered…

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Basics – Standalone drive auto media management

I don’t have many customers with standalone tape drives. Usually when they do, it’s due to one of two reasons:…

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Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM

When it comes to backup and data protection, I like to think of myself as being somewhat of a stickler…

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Basics – Directed Recoveries

Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…

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Aside – Victoria Tourism

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not from Victoria; I hail from New South Wales in Australia, and there’s…

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What’s backup got to do with it?

Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that companies can make is to focus on their backup window. You might…

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NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux

When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it –…

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The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators

A while ago, I ran a post titled Ethical Obligations of Backup Administrators. Following up from that now I want…

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Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker

A few days ago a customer was having a rather odd problem. They’re currently running NetWorker 7.3.3 and getting ready…

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