2014 NetWorker Usage Report

I’m pleased to say I’ve completed and made available the NetWorker usage report for 2014. I’m particularly grateful to everyone who took…

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FUDtasia

I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…

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Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging

Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…

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Merits of target based deduplication

It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…

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NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs

Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, Siobhán Ellis pointed…

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Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices

Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…

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