NetWorker Pools with Data Domain
As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…
Tag: Cloning
Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too
I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…
10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes
When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…
Check in – New Years Resolutions
In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…
7 common problems with deduplication
In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…
NetWorker 7.6 SP1
Introduction I was lucky enough to get to work on the beta testing programme for NetWorker 7.6 SP1. While there…
Basics – Need a different volume from pool …
The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…
Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time
I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…
Staging and Connectivity Loss
For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…
What’s backup got to do with it?
Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that companies can make is to focus on their backup window. You might…