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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
Basics – Directed Recoveries
Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…
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…
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…
NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux
When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it –…