Pages Books Quick Links Subscription About Contact Archives Why the flag? Documentation Nomenclature Site Map Tools Posts by category Category: Architecture The (backup at the) end of the road Coming Soon: A book about recovery for busy people Solving Tech Debt Data Hoarding is Probably Holding your Business Back Outage vs Outrage Contemplating Complexity Basics – Of Asset Sources and Assets Good Ideas and Angular Friction Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business Fundamental Decision Domains for Workload Migration Of Cascading Failures Bad Things Happen The 9 Essential Properties of Backup Basics – NetWorker AFTD on NAS Basics – Compliance Retention with PowerProtect Data Manager Bunkers vs Vaults NetWorker Architecture Basics Backup Administrators Should Stick to Their Knitting Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability – 2nd Edition Meme Monday Of Pandemics, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Meme Monday Guess who else likes your backups in the Cloud? The Perils of Myopic Optimism Australian Bushfires show the Precarious State of Modern Infrastructure Data Protection Memes Basics – Architecture Matters Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection The 15 Minute Rule The Last Gasp of Windows 2008 Book Giveaway Competition (Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud) Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud Start with “Why?” PowerProtect – Changing Data Protection Understanding Database Backup Methods Data Domain Virtual Edition Extends Multi-Cloud Support Basics – The FARR Model GDPR: Do your backups spark joy? Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker Basics – Change and Growth 10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes Hello, 2019 Staging Systems vs Backup Systems Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage Data Protection Central 18.1 Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node? Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later? Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best The House That No-One Built What’s Cloud DR? Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage? Arranging by policy Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too 2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report Data Protection Central is Here Basics: Planning A Recovery Service The Perils of Tape The rise of the hyperconverged administrator Talking about Ransomware Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2) Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1) Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance Architecture Matters: When you dedupe What Queen can teach us about long term retention NetWorker Usage Report for 2016 The Rise of the New Risk Build vs Buy GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier Why do I need eCDM? My cup runneth over Falling in love with the IRS Basics – Understanding NetWorker Architecture Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA How many copies do I need? Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated Data Domain Goes Virtual Who should handle your database backups? Data isn’t data isn’t data NetWorker Usage Survey for 2015 NetWorker 9: The future of backup LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum Tales from the trenches – Tape Pool size and deduplication NetWorker to the Cloud One target to rule them all Service catalogues and backups Virtualised servers and storage nodes How secure are your backups? Shared Data Domain Access NetWorker Usage Survey, 2014-2015 The current state of virtual machine backups in NetWorker Architectural implications of in-flight Data Domain Boost encryption Understanding Client Direct Rolling your own dedupe Data Domain Boost and Daily/Monthly Backups Deduplication Usage in NetWorker NetWorker Usage Survey 2013 Results What’s your test environment? Spy vs Agent Data Domain: VTL vs Boost Data protection lessons from a tomato Of accidental architectures NetWorker 8.1 Overview Cloud and Backups All frameworks have limits NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices Introducing NetWorker 8 The one core problem with deduplication Healthy paranoia The problem with VADP ILP policies vs Backup Policies Counting the numbers Rage against the ravine Stop 10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes Decommissioning backup environments The designing of backup environments Check in – New Years Resolutions Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise Why backup theory is important The top ten for 2011 Trial podcast Ongoing trends with tape Where RIM went wrong If you wouldn’t drink it, don’t cook with it… 5 more considerations for deduplication But where does the DPA fit in? What don’t you backup? 7 common problems with deduplication Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning The risk of change You’re not the boss of me Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011 This is wrong Technology is not the solution Adherents to the Repeated Meme Managing tape backup media lifecycles Book Drive Well, it performs – or performance? First, backup everything Psst! Want to touch my backup server? The 7 Challenges of Data Protection The virtue of persistence Survey – Virtual Backup Servers 37 Signals and the “end of the IT department” Capacity planning – quickly or properly? Smoothing Fulls Deduplication and space management What is a backup system? Good enough, or perfect? Deleting with Reckless Abaddon Sisyphus, the Storage King An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive The importance of being archived (and deleted) A basic data lifecycle Holiday Wrap-Up NetWorker Usage Survey Report IT Strategies Who is your backup admin? Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth appliances vs Appliances The Half-Life of a Backup Know your environment Why upgrade clients? Divorcing NMC from NetWorker Virtualisation and testing Large group backups ADV_FILE operational changes Coming ADV_FILE changes 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2) 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1) There is no magic bullet LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel Barcode categories create issues NetWorker Survey Results Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies Of Unicorns and Horses What should your toolkit look like? Killing me softly? I never liked the song either. IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape The law of least astonishment and backups All this DeDupe is making me thirsty! Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time The A-Z of Backup and Recovery The top 10 for 2009 Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small Pictorial representation of management happiness over OpEx cost savings EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup Storage Tiering vs ILM Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture Why /nsr/tmp is wrong NetWorker Resource Relationships How much aren’t you backing up? Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again Wishlist – Server/Storage Node for Mac OS X When will tape die? Wish list – Extension to “scheduled backup” Sub-saveset checkpointing would be good NetWorker Single Server Edition Aside – That old spindle problem In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems Spacing out full backups Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices Architectural failings of monolithic personal mail databases What is /nsr/debug? Should you use NAS for disk backup? Dealing with low-bandwidth connection to storage nodes Merits of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) Category: Aside Assorted Musings (Episode 6) Assorted Musings (Episode 5) Assorted Musings (Episode 4) Assorted Musings (Episode 3) Assorted musings (Episode 2) Assorted musings (Episode 1?) Adventures in Solar Of Home Labs and Commercial Ventures Random Thoughts on Moving Working in the Hour of the Wolf Dreaming of 8-Bit: The Raspberry Pi 400 Summer Holiday Adventures Goodbye, Drobo DON’T PANIC …and that’s a wrap for 2019 Meme Monday Basics – Helping the Elderly What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks? And now a word from my sponsor New role I’ve been Elected again EMC Elect Site update The hard questions Crashplan Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope Questions about “big data” Taming dragons Should POETS day be special? Vendors without a message How indispensable is your company? International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia Where’s the “It gets better” storage industry video? nsrjb -w -S 7 … aka, 7 weeks to go Aside: Icarus, revisited Aside: In praise of pbzip2 The real joy of consulting MMIA, not MIA Microsoft, start your copiers Hiatus…? RIP Solaris Aside – An argument against internet censorship March, in a nutshell Aside – NetWorker Documentation Aside – Top Stories for February The case of Dell and the Interdicted Disks Aside – The Great Shrinking Disk Drive A new vendor battle Introducing the NetWorker Information Hub Happy holidays What I’ve learnt this year… Overland Storage on the ropes? Seasons greetings from the NetWorker Blog Aside – My Number #1 Pet Peeve in Interface Design What’s been happening this week? Maybe I’m just an old Unix hack… Aside – This time, 10 years ago November’s top article The lighter side… Aside – Adobe Bloatware First thoughts – VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop v5 Nybbles Can you trust Azure? And I had thought it was some marketing stunt… Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X 20 years… Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF Maybe it’s just as well… Why you should love timesheets The fall and decline of Microsoft October Hits Please, No! Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere Enhancing RFEs Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure? Charting vendor blogging contribution Larry Ellison vs The Cloud Hearing hype? Do a TNB test Obligations were popular in September Aside – Dust storms in NSW Aside – The exciting world of SSD Aside – Victoria Tourism British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing Aside – EMC Acquires Kazeon Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla Most popular in August (Semi) Aside – Interesting article on practical heuristics Aside – Data Visualisation Cloud Computing vs The Network Computer Aside – District 9 Aside – Other World Computing Aside – The scourge of filesystems Last month’s top story Aside – The decline of Microsoft SysAdmin appreciation day Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs? Aside – Evolution of Logos Aside – How much is a Petabyte? Aside – Consulting tips Aside – On second thoughts, escalate that please Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux) Take a peek at Going Virtual The Dual Evils – Malware, and Malware Protection Great VMware coverage Aside – Who will mourn traditional news? Aside – Siftables (TED) Mozying along Computer poster ads from the 1980’s Nothing is simple Aside – Failures in Interface Design Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot more in the book In memory of Tiananmen Square Sydney to Perth Lambretta Ride for Cancer Funding Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs Why I’ll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes Aside – International data roaming Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher Aside – Marketing Aside – Are voice command interfaces the way of the future? Aside – Nomenclature page Aside – Keyboards Why interfaces must be beautiful as well as functional Aside – the three rules of good coffee SciFi without Asimov’s laws of robotics You know what would be great…? Don’t forget, there’s a whole lot more in the book Aside – My take on Time Machine Recommended reading: Asimov’s 3 laws unsafe Aside – How I stay organised Category: Automation PostgreSQL Backups with Pre-Scripts DevOps and PowerProtect Data Manager Meme Monday Category: Avamar What’s new in NetWorker 19.8, Avamar 19.8? What’s new in Avamar 19.7? Avamar Basics – Using Post-Scripts Basics – Avamar and Microsoft SQL Server Recoveries Avamar Basics – Command Line Restores using avtar Avamar Basics – Working with Pre-Backup Commands Data Protection in 2020: Reflections Nineteen Point Four Avamar Basics – VMware Changed Block Tracking Recoveries Avamar Basics – Recovering a Virtual Machine as a new Guest Data Protection Software 19.3 – What’s New? #WhyIProtectWithDell Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection Meme Monday Basics – Using Avamar to Protect S3 Bucket Data Avamar Fitness Analyzer – Taking the Pulse of your Avamar Environment What’s New in Avamar 19.2? Data Protection Software 19.1 vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better Basics – Recovering SQL Databases as Files in Avamar Reflections on 2018 Data Protection Suite 18.2 Multi-Systems Search Data Protection Search Overview A Simple Linux KVM Backup Framework using NetWorker Basics – Avamar Client Logs Avamar 18.1 – A Stellar Interface Christmas in July – A Bevy of Beautiful Updates 2015 – that’s a wrap! Avamar: Gym Built Version Category: Backup theory Book Giveaway: The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery When do I invoke Cyber Recovery? 28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups How do you solve Protective Dissonance? Introductory Considerations to Cyber Resiliency Basics: Backup Lifecycle Why Data Classification in Backup is Pointless Meme Monday Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection NetWorker Pools with Data Domain Linear tape (not-so) Open? Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks I can’t stand world backup day Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM Protecting your thoughts Sandpits in enterprise data protection Racing Backups Basics – Understanding NetWorker Dependency Tracking Would you buy a dangerbase? What constitutes a successful backup? What to do on world backup day NetWorker 2016 Usage Survey Backing up Oracle with NMDA Betting the company Client Load: Filesystem and Database Backups Melbourne DPUG and VMware Data Protection World backup day misses the point Parallel Save Streams for HDFS Performance Gains Backing up renamed directories Basics – Force incremental The divisibility of eggs Recovery Survey Results FUDtasia Monitoring vs Troubleshooting Training – it’s an uphill battle Every day is world recovery day Differentiating Differentials Dark Data 7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies Metrics you can depend on Don’t eliminate the error 20 Common Misconceptions about Backup Preparedness is not wastefulness Auditing should be done only by the experts There is no such thing as a backup failure No Zero Error Policy? No backup system Technology is rarely the issue Setting alarm bells ringing Is bare metal recovery dead? Why I work in backups Error lifecycle management It’s a bit like fishy custard What a day! Book Drive The perils of an Icarus support contract Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator? Sometimes it’s not my problem Backup is Insurance Oh come on, pull the other one Snapshots and Backups, Part 2 Snapshots and Backups All your data are belong to us Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery Do you know your end of support dates? The importance of full backups Get off 7.2 and 7.3 15 crazy things I never want to hear again This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift Funny attitude adjustments How complex is your backup environment? Merits of target based deduplication The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge? Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3! Don’t resent your log files! The scandalous truth about Clouds Recovery is NOT #3 Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing Is a “copy” a “backup”? Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries What’s backup got to do with it? The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators You can’t escape cloning with cross-site backups Backup does not suck Zero Error Policy Management Backup is a production activity What is a zero error policy? Media, CapEx and OpEx My Personal NetWorker Wish List Backup is insurance Thinking green? Think tape HSM implications for backup Impact of high speed tape on backup Backups are not about being miserly Category: Basics Oracle and PowerProtect Data Manager NetWorker Basics – Policy Tree and Status NetWorker Basics – Rolling your own Savesets NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates NetWorker Basics – Let nsr_render_log B your friend Basics – Retiring Clients in NetWorker 19.4 Basics – Indexed File Recovery with NetWorker 19.4 NWUI NetWorker Basics – Getting More from nsrcapinfo Data Domain Basics – Hardening Password Controls Basics – File-level recovery from agent-based backups in PPDM Basics – Getting NetWorker Client Details Basics – FLR from BBB in NWUI Basics – Using the NetWorker HTML UI for File-Level Recovery Basics – Showing NetWorker Dependencies NetWorker Basics – Enhanced Webwatch NetWorker Basics – A Simple Prototype Web-Based nsrwatch Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries Basics – PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups Basics – PPDM DR, vCenter and VM Backup Policy Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems Basics – PPDM 19.3 Deployment and Initial Setup Basics – Upgrading to Data Protection Central 19.2 Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details Basics: Handling a Failed Backup Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate? Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies Proof of Concept: Docker with BoostFS Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies Basics – Numbers Matter Basics – Getting started with BoostFS Basics – Handling Upgrades Through Data Domain Management Center Basics – What’s a virtual synthetic full? Basics – Prior Recovery Details Basics – NMC VMware Viewer Basics – device `X’ is marked as suspect Basics – Compatibility Guide Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS NetWorker Scales El Capitan Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line Records retention and NMC Basics – Workflow for adding a new client Basics – Customising the NMC login screen Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs Basics – Tape capacity and compression Basics – Old Savegroup Messages Basics – Getting a bootstrap with every backup Client side compression gets a squeeze Basics – NetWorker and Push/Pull Recovery Models Automedia Management in Tape Libraries 5 rules for upgrading NetWorker Basics – Jobkill goes interactive Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape? Basics – NetWorker Server Client ID Basics – Cloning vs Staging Killing scheduled cloning operations Basics – Specifying a default Jukebox Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset Basics – Skip and Forget Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement Basics – VTLs and default media sizes Basics – Need a different volume from pool … Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID! Lessons I’ve recently learned… Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle Basics – Default pool debugging 101 Basics – Standalone drive auto media management Basics – Directed Recoveries Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk Basics – Staging Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules Basics – Auto media verify Basics – What inode did that file have when it was backed up? Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting Basics – Updates vs Upgrades Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options Top 5 Reflections Basics – NetWorker differential levels Basics – Achieving higher frequency backups Basics – Null vs Skip Directives Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup? Basics – Stopping and restarting NetWorker on Mac OS X Basics – mmpool Basics – nsrlic Basics – nsraddadmin Basics – jbverify Basics – no_striped_recover Basics – No two groups should start simultaneously Basics – Using datazone encryption with NetWorker Basics – Setting cleaning tape usage/registering a cleaning tape Basics – Remote Control Basics – Commands you should know Part 2 Basics – Fixing “NSR peer information” errors Basics – Commands you should know Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times Basics – Why nsrwatch is still needed Basics – Stopping and starting NetWorker from the Windows command line Basics – dbgcommand Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units Category: Best Practice The Tender Art of Process Re-Evaluation When planning for long term retention, look to the database model Data Protection and the Cloud Shared Responsibility Model Cyber Vaults need Robust Recovery Processes and Documentation I’d like to speak to your CIPO, please Ransomware News A Few Considerations Around Data Breaches in Australia NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Options 3 Simple Questions Cloud Snapshot Manager NetWorker 8.2 SP2 is here The lazy admin Housing your software The Data Protection Manifesto Centralising Data Domain Logging Best Practice – Groups Best Practice – Are index pools required? Best Practice – Pool content Category: Business Continuity In case of emergency Understanding Cyber Resilience Category: Cloud Keeping Cloud Data Protection Costs Low PowerProtect Backup Service for Salesforce NetWorker Basics – S3 as an AFTD Target PowerProtect Backup Service Launches PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager Gets Deduplication Cloud is a Product Pivot Basics – Using NetWorker to Protect S3 Bucket Data Learning! From! The! Yahoo! Groups! Dumpster! Fire! Cloudy, with a chance of data-loss? Myspace Data Loss – Some Questions Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management 2017 in Review Recovering nsrd.info Category: Containers PowerProtect with Kubernetes Category: Convergent Data Protection Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection Category: Correction Errata – Updated KVM Backup Script Category: Data Domain Cloud Tier gets Cold What is Smart Scale? NetWorker Dedupe Stats, Redux Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats PowerProtect DD Series Appliances Updates NetWorker Volume Move DDOS 7.3 loves the Cloud Using NetWorker with Data Domain Retention Lock Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries 6 Reasons why Data Domain provides Unparalleled Ransomware Protection Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data? Data Domain 3300 Update Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1 Data Domain Management Centre Data Domain Updates Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore NetWorker 8.2 and VBA Instant-Access Seeing in-flight encryption with Data Domain and NetWorker at work Category: Data loss Ransomware is a fact of life Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss Category: Data Protection Central Deploying Data Protection Central 19.7 NetWorker, DPA, DPC 19.5 Category: Databases Using ItemPoint Table Level Recovery with SQL Server NetWorker 7.5 and Oracle Module 5 Category: Disaster Recovery Category: Documentation What’s up, doc? Category: EMC What’s new in 8.2? EMC Elect, 2014 Speed2Lead: Launch, not hypegasm The quickening Category: Ethics Privacy? You don’t need any of that! Ethical obligations of backup administrators Category: Features What’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1? Understanding NetWorker licensing options Writing, 2147483647 sessions 7.5.2 and ADV_FILE devices nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows Validcopies hazardous to your sanity Staging and Connectivity Loss A cautionary tale about changing pools Client side compression and saveset sizes 7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file Category: General Technology One Year a Product Manager Review: XMind — Mind Map Tool Death in the Digital Age IT Skills: To Degree or not to Degree General Review: Fences Two Things Apple Get Wrong Still With iOS The Changing Face of Computers On Screen Australia demands an end to data protection Stop, Collaborate and Listen (Shareware) Stop, Collaborate and Listen Enable me The IT organism Clouds and bandaids Did NetApp jump the shark? Partner is not a dirty word 5 questions for Drobo First impressions: Data Domain Boost A tale of 4 vendors Telling facts 7 rules for system administrators What’s missing with thin provisioning? What’s wrong with vendor training? NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode iPad = iManage Availability and Uptime Search, search, search. It’s all about search. Let’s have a Green 2010 Going on holiday? Don’t upgrade first Show me the man pages …And why I’ll stick to Parallels Google service and accountability in The Cloud Uptime is an inappropriate metric LTO-5 Update Category: General thoughts Notes of the Past End to End UX Autumnal Miscellany John Proctor and Data Breaches Lessons from Product Management 2021, a Lockdown Odyssey This is not a political post 7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection …are you hiring? Pumping data EMC, Sun and Oracle NetWorker survey Nybbles for the end of the week When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster? Meet your library Expecting a more complete backup EMC helping out Quantum Is your LTO media compatible with your drives? What would you like to see in advanced training? Does your backup administrator have a say in change control? Index backups for recovery Recording Client IDs Tape libraries and the hidden speeds Yet another “tape is dead” story. Ho-hum. Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes Quibbles – I know I’m depositing tapes, dummy! Picking the best backup server Distribution plug – SME Server The naming of backup servers Recommended reading Category: IDPA Super backup in a box that’s really quite bodacious Category: Licensing NetWorker 9.2 Capacity Measurement Data protection licensing The pros and cons of Legato License Manager Category: Linux Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups Linux Block Based Backups in NetWorker 9 Debugging nsrmmd New micromanual – LinuxVTL and NetWorker NetWorker and CentOS What’s the point of enterprise, commercial Linux? NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units Using the NetWorker Software Distribution Functionality Using yum to install NetWorker on Linux Client operating systems should not be changed Category: Long Term Retention Category: MusingAboutTech Category: NetWorker What’s new in NetWorker 19.11 (and 19.10)? What’s new in NetWorker 19.9? What’s new in NetWorker 19.7? NetWorker 19.6 At a Glance NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI Basics – NetWorker Multiple Virtual Machine Recovery Operation Automated Testing of Virtual Machine Recoveries using NetWorker Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker What’s New in NetWorker 19.2? Basics – Dynamic VMware Policies with NetWorker 18.2 NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging Introduction to NetWorker 18.1 WebUI I Never Doubted My Protection NetWorker 2017 Usage Survey NetWorker Success Stories Birthday give-away competition Basics – Running Workflows Manually NetWorker 9.2 – A Focused Release Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup Basics – File level recovery from Image Level Backup NetWorker 9.1.1 gets out the door Summer Fresh NetWorker 9.1 NetWorker 9.0 SP1 NetWorker 8.2 SP3 2015 NetWorker Usage Report Multihost consistent backups in NetWorker 9 Updated checks in nsradmin Sampling device performance Recovery survey Celebrating 25 years of NetWorker Basics – Configuring a reports-only user Upgrade times Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1 2014 NetWorker Usage Report Happy birthday NetWorker 8.2 SP1 Client checking with nsradmin Turbocharged EMC NetWorker External NetWorker Authentication without AD mminfo2html A very blue upgrade Seven enhancements I’d like to see in NetWorker NetWorker Usage Survey, 2013 Checkpoint your backups Virtual synthetic fulls: A match made in heaven Casing the joint Notify me Happy anniversary, EMC and Legato Debugging – device device daemons on a storage node NetWorker Tunnels NetWorker Usage Report 2012 NetWorker Usage Survey, 2012-2013 NetWorker 8: Synthetic fulls Recovery survey Using probes? Upgrade to 7.6 SP3 CR1 10 NetWorker Configuration Rules 7.6 SP3 – What’s in it for me? NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results Melbourne NetWorker User? nsrwatch gets an update New NetWorker Technical Documents NetWorker Firewall Configuration on Windows Differential backups and recoveries NetWorker Usage Survey, November 2010 mminfo and NOT queries NetWorker 7.6 SP1 First thoughts – NetWorker 7.5 SP3 AFTD Enhancements What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker Client inactivity timeout is not group timeout Using NetWorker Client with Opensolaris Basics – Previewing Directives NetWorker 7.6 SP1 Cumulative patch clusters NetWorker Usage Survey – Don’t forget to vote! Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux NetWorker 7.5.2 – What’s it got? NetWorker 7.5.2 (NetWorker 7.5 SP2) released January’s Top Post A blast from the past 7.5.1.9 cumulative patch cluster released Cumulative patch release for 7.6 NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups NetWorker 7.6 and nsr_render_log Fingers Crossed for some New Years Resolutions from EMC Long term NetWare recovery Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment SNMP is Simply Not My Problem Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI? Wait! Don’t apply that service pack! Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets? Quibbles – Directive Management Redux Using NetWorker for Live Search Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker Quibbles – Directive Management Book some time with the book NetWorker and Snow Leopard What does supported mean? Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks NetWorker 7.4.5 – Should you update? What’s wrong with the NMC installation process? NetWorker 7.4.5 VTLs and media load/unload times Manual backups and the ‘quiet’ option NetWorker 7.4.4.7 is out NetWorker vs Scratch pools My worst recovery ever Mistakes you don’t want to make Using SELinux with NetWorker Release notes are your friend Quibbles – A better NetWorker init script would be nice… Directives and change control Upgrading NetWorker and the ‘tmp’ directory Are you Monitoring RAP? Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server Cautions for running NetWorker daemons manually Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server Caveats for using high debug levels when investigating an issue NetWorker 7.5 and changes to browse/retention times 7.5.1 Cumulative patches (In)securing your daemon.raw with nsr_render_log -z Debugging autochanger operations Basics – Important mminfo fields Finding files in your indices Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs Keep your logs Leaving on a jet plane When should you clean your drives? Determining your NetWorker binary build details Screen shots don’t constitute logs Ready for {reading|writing}, idle Recovering with scanner and uasm Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios Fiji NetWorker 7.5.1, Software Repository and Solaris x86/Solaris AMD Zeroth tier: the backup director NetWorker 7.5.1 Released NetWorker’s little brother gets a pair of long pants Thoughts on IBM and Sun in acquisition discussions… Space occupied by inactive files An old dog can always learn new tricks (rpcinfo) Is your backup server fast enough? Traps when upgrading from 7.3.x to 7.4.x – CDI Audit is not a 4-letter word Getting jobquery to talk to you Timeout – Victorian Bush Fire Relief Offsite your bootstrap reports Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows Basics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than Basics – Listing files in a backup Using probe based backups in NetWorker NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem Learning NetWorker Instantiating savesets How old is your media? Category: NVP NetWorker 9.1 FLR Web Interface Category: Policies Of cascading failures and the need to test How important is it to clone? Category: PowerProtect PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 Using Scripts with Policies What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.16 19.15 Hits the Ground Running Working with Restore Plans PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14 What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.13? 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