Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server,…
The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…
There’s a lot of talk about tracking data growth by watching SAN and NAS usage, counting allocated storage by the…
While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…
On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…
The Register has some coverage at the moment of Intel demonstrating a (highly customised/optimised) 7 disk SSD configuration which delivered…
When you run a manual backup in NetWorker (e.g., via the “save” command), NetWorker will by default give you a…
Most days my blog stats shows at least one search coming into the blog along the lines of “how fast…
When I used to be a system administrator, back when 2GB hard drives were the norm, I remember an Oracle…
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…