NetWorker Dedupe Stats, Redux

Where we’re at A few weeks ago I posted a (lengthy) Perl script (and explanation) for running deduplication analysis against…

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Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats

If you use NetWorker with Data Domain, you’ve probably sometimes wanted to know which of your clients have the best…

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Meme Monday

OK, let’s look at common data protection challenges through the eyes of memes again! I’m a big fan of backup…

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Meme Monday

Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…

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Basics – Architecture Matters

Here’s a typical sort of challenge: you’ve got a workload running in public cloud, but there’s a strong desire to…

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Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important

Here’s a topic that comes up from time to time: block size in deduplication. (Note here I’m using the term…

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NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate?

Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage

Introduction When you’re writing backups to tape, capacity reclamation is pretty straight forward (unless you’re using an archive product that…

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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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