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