Introduction I was lucky enough to get to work on the beta testing programme for NetWorker 7.6 SP1. While there…
On the weekend it came out, being your typical backup geek, I downloaded NetWorker 7.5 SP3, installed a new virtual…
There is a bug with the way NetWorker 7.5.2 handles ADV_FILE devices in relation to disk evacuation. I.e., in a…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, EMC have announced on their community forum that there are some major changes…
I had been aware for a while from an NDA conversation that these changes were on the way, but of…
In the previous article, I covered the first five of ten reasons why tape is still important. Now, let’s consider…
Various companies will spin you their “tape is dead” story, and I’m the first to admit that the use pattern…
While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more…
With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…
Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…