Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker

Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…

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Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection

At VMworld, DellEMC announced a new backup technology for virtual machines called Hypervisor Direct, which represents a paradigm that I’d refer…

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Data Domain Updates

I was on annual leave last week (and this week I find myself in Santa Clara). Needless to say, the…

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Who should handle your database backups?

I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…

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2015 – that’s a wrap!

As we approachĀ the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the dataĀ protection…

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Architectural implications of in-flight Data Domain Boost encryption

Between the Boost libraries included in NetWorker 8.2, and the in-flight encryption functionality added in Data Domain OS 5.5, it’s…

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Data Domain Boost and Daily/Monthly Backups

One question that comes up every now and then concerns having an optimal approach to Data Domain Boost devices in…

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Virtual synthetic fulls: A match made in heaven

One of the great new features in NetWorker 8.1 isĀ virtual synthetic fulls. You may think the term ‘virtual synthetic’ sounds…

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Data Domain: VTL vs Boost

If you’re looking at deploying Data Domain with NetWorker, but are coming from a physical tape or even an alternate…

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Avamar: Gym Built Version

I don’t normally write too much about Avamar. While it’s a great product with some excellent features, my background has…

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