Multi-Schedule Policies

PowerProtect Data Manager’s policy engine is designed to be an all-in-one method to planning your data protection copies. Let’s see…

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Arranging by policy

A week before easter, I was doing some Powerplate exercises, nothing I hadn’t done hundreds of times before, when stepping…

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Basics – Running Workflows Manually

It may be something to do with my long Unix background, or maybe it’s because my first system administration job…

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Basics – Using the vSphere Plugin to Add Clients for Backup

It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…

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Would you buy a dangerbase?

Databases. They’re expensive, aren’t they? What if I sold you a Dangerbase instead? What’s a dangerbase!? I’m glad you asked. A dangerbase…

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The lazy admin

Are you an industriously busy backup administrator, or are you lazy? When I started in IT in 1996, it wasn’t…

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Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line

If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…

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Of accidental architectures

  EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…

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Technology is rarely the issue

One of the stories I sometimes hear from companies is that some technology X doesn’t work in their environment because…

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