Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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Sampling device performance

Data Protection Advisor is an excellent tool for producing information about your backup environment, but not everyone has it in…

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Monitoring vs Troubleshooting

How much time do your staff take to monitor backups? The answer should be: very little. Not because they don’t…

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nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows

I started administering NetWorker servers in 1996. At the time I was working with Solstice Backup, the Sun OEM rebadged…

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