Linux Block Based Backups in NetWorker 9

As mentioned in my introductory post about it, NetWorker 9 introduces the option to perform Block Based Backups (BBB) for Linux systems.…

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Lessons I’ve recently learned…

When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…

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NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs

Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, Siobhán Ellis pointed…

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Aside – The scourge of filesystems

This morning I had to replace half of a mirror in my Linux server, which being a home server, meant…

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