Basics – NetWorker Compressed Recoveries

While Data Domain compressed restores had been available in the NMDA and NMM modules for a while, NetWorker 19.1 introduced…

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Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1

Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…

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Not so squeezy

It’s funny, the little tools you build up over the years as someone heavily involved in backup, particularly when it…

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Basics – Tape capacity and compression

Tape capacity. It should be straight forward, but many people tend to look at only the biggest, most optimistic numbers,…

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Client side compression gets a squeeze

One of the enhancements to NetWorker v8 has been the introduction of additional client side compression options. If you’ve been…

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Aside: In praise of pbzip2

A while ago I got rather frustrated with the performance of compression utilities on my Mac Pro. It’s a bit…

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Client side compression and saveset sizes

While it turned out to be unrelated, a recent customer question made me think back to the impact of client…

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