EMC, Sun and Oracle

There’s been much speculation as to whether Sun under Oracle would retain the EMC NetWorker OEM arrangement. Finally there’s some…

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux

While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling…

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Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

Over at a website called ignore the code, there’s a fascinating and insightful piece at the moment about removing features.…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Introducing the NetWorker Information Hub

Part of my goal in moving the blog from WordPress to a dedicated site was to be able to start…

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Fingers Crossed for some New Years Resolutions from EMC

Over at Storagebod’s Blog, Martin Glassborow has been providing a highly interesting and entertaining set of letters to Father Christmas,…

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Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture

It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…

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Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units

On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…

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Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs?

Most days my blog stats shows at least one search coming into the blog along the lines of “how fast…

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