Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line
If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…
Tag: Backup
NetWorker 8.2 and VBA Instant-Access
One of the great new features in NetWorker is the integration of Instant Access, whereby virtual machines backed up with the VBA…
Backing up renamed directories
Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…
Cloud and Backups
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…
Healthy paranoia
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
ILP policies vs Backup Policies
This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…
Decommissioning backup environments
Much of what I deal with relates to active backup systems, but sometimes a backup system will reach an end-point…
7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies
I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…
Metrics you can depend on
When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…
What don’t you backup?
I think this is a question that the average company wholly, inadequately, fails to understand. You see, when it’s asked, people…