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Aside – Who will mourn traditional news?

 Preston de Guise  June 21, 2009

I’ve practically given up on traditional news sources, much to my annoyance. You see, I used to be one of…

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: Aside, news

Aside – Siftables (TED)

 Preston de Guise  June 20, 2009

Far too infrequently I remember to visit TED. One of my favourite technology related talks on the site however is…

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: siftables, TED

NetWorker 7.5 and changes to browse/retention times

 Preston de Guise  June 20, 2009

Documented in the NetWorker 7.5 release notes, and a topic of much discussion at the moment on the NetWorker mailing…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: 7.5, Browse, Retention

When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster?

 Preston de Guise  June 19, 2009

In the past EMC have not so much “issued” cumulative patch clusters, but let them trickle out on an as-needs…

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 Posted in: General thoughts, NetWorker  Tagged: cumulative patch, EMC, patch

In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems

 Preston de Guise  June 17, 2009  5 Comments on In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems

Frequent visitors to this blog will be well aware of the various comments I’ve made about the impact of filesystems…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Backup theory, NetWorker  Tagged: dense filesystems, store index entries

7.5.1 Cumulative patches

 Preston de Guise  June 16, 2009  2 Comments on 7.5.1 Cumulative patches

7.5.1 cumulative patches (i.e., patches on top of 7.5.1) have been made for most NetWorker platforms. While I don’t have…

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Mozying along

 Preston de Guise  June 14, 2009  2 Comments on Mozying along

For my own personal data, I use a variety of backup and archival methods depending on the data I wish…

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: cloud, Mozy, personal backups

Computer poster ads from the 1980’s

 Preston de Guise  June 13, 2009

I found this on undrln.com – reference to a bunch of poster ads for computers from the early 80’s. Some…

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Nothing is simple

 Preston de Guise  June 12, 2009

Over at The Daily WTF, there’s a great piece about debugging and 24×7 support for a weighbridge. Having dealt with…

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 Posted in: Aside  Tagged: 24x7, debugging, weighbridge

HSM implications for backup

 Preston de Guise  June 11, 2009  2 Comments on HSM implications for backup

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, NetWorker  Tagged: HSM, performance

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