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…
Tag: deduplication
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…
Meme Monday
OK, let’s look at common data protection challenges through the eyes of memes again! I’m a big fan of backup…
Meme Monday
Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…