In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…
Anyone who has either an understanding of the role that the computers played in World War II, or has a…
In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current…
Periodically someone will tell me that they don’t need to clone because they run cross-site backups. I.e., they’ll have an…
In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…
In the dim dark days of NetWorker (e.g., v4 and v5), I used to have periodic cron jobs that would…
EMC has been buying so many companies lately that sometimes it’s difficult to remember who did what, and why they…
I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s…
Despite being such a useful feature, it’s surprising how often I see the auto media verify setting disabled across all…
There is much more to backup than feeds and speeds, how-to guides for specific products, technical analysis of individual product…