Staging Systems vs Backup Systems
Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…
Tag: Backup
Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM
Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…
NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging
One of the things that I forgot to mention earlier that’s included in the NetWorker 18.1 release is a function…
3 Simple Questions
In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…
Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup
It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…
What constitutes a successful backup?
Introduction A seemingly straight-forward question, what constitutes a successful backup may not engender the same response from everyone you ask. On the surface,…
What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?
There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…
Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS
Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…
Multihost consistent backups in NetWorker 9
NetWorker 9 introduces a new action that can be incorporated into workflows, Check Connectivity. You can use this prior to a backup…
Linux Block Based Backups in NetWorker 9
As mentioned in my introductory post about it, NetWorker 9 introduces the option to perform Block Based Backups (BBB) for Linux systems….