British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing

Anyone who has either an understanding of the role that the computers played in World War II, or has a…

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Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk

In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current…

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You can’t escape cloning with cross-site backups

Periodically someone will tell me that they don’t need to clone because they run cross-site backups. I.e., they’ll have an…

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Basics – Staging

In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…

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Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules

In the dim dark days of NetWorker (e.g., v4 and v5), I used to have periodic cron jobs that would…

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Aside – EMC Acquires Kazeon

EMC has been buying so many companies lately that sometimes it’s difficult to remember who did what, and why they…

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Quibbles – Directive Management

I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s…

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Basics – Auto media verify

Despite being such a useful feature, it’s surprising how often I see the auto media verify setting disabled across all…

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Book some time with the book

There is much more to backup than feeds and speeds, how-to guides for specific products, technical analysis of individual product…

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Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla

Storagezilla makes a brief mention of a new EMC acquisition called FastScale. My (even briefer) coverage of it is that…

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