Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection

Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…

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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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Basics – Using NetWorker to Protect S3 Bucket Data

Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to use Avamar to protect S3/Bucket data. This time around, I’m going…

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What’s New in NetWorker 19.2?

With the release of Data Protection Software 19.2 comes NetWorker 19.2. There are some great new features in NetWorker 19.2,…

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Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices

If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…

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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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Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker

Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…

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Data Protection Software 19.1

It’s that time! Data Protection Software 19.1 has been released. With new versions released simultaneously, that means there’s updates available…

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Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files

You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…

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Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies

A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…

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