Melbourne DPUG and VMware Data Protection

Recently a colleague and I initiated the Melbourne Data Protection User Group (DPUG). If you’re interested in joining and participating and…

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One target to rule them all

Introduction It’s true there are some data types that broadly aren’t suitable to sending to Data Domain – any more than they’re suitable for sending to…

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Shared Data Domain Access

If you’ve come from a tape library environment, you’re well aware the only way to share a tape library between multiple…

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Seeing in-flight encryption with Data Domain and NetWorker at work

As I mentioned in an earlier article, Data Domain OS 5.5 introduced a new feature, in-flight encryption. This applies to Data…

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Centralising Data Domain Logging

If you’ve got a Data Domain in your NetWorker environment, you obviously need to monitor it, just as you would any other…

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Understanding Client Direct

Client direct is a (relatively) new feature, introduced in the 8.x series, (8.0 to be exact) which allows for a client…

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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 is 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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