Psst! Want to touch my backup server?

Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server,…

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Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth

There’s a lot of talk about tracking data growth by watching SAN and NAS usage, counting allocated storage by the…

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NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment

While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…

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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 – The exciting world of SSD

The Register has some coverage at the moment of Intel demonstrating a (highly customised/optimised) 7 disk SSD configuration which delivered…

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Manual backups and the ‘quiet’ option

When you run a manual backup in NetWorker (e.g., via the “save” command), NetWorker will by default give you a…

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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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Aside – That old spindle problem

When I used to be a system administrator, back when 2GB hard drives were the norm, I remember an Oracle…

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HSM implications for backup

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…

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