By the Power of Process

If you’ve read any of my data protection books, even the most recent one, you’ll probably notice that I’m a…

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Contemplating Complexity

We’re often taught to reject complexity, and there’s a certain simple, elegant logic to that idea. Taken at face value,…

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Basics – Workflow for adding a new client

A question I get asked from time to time is “How do I do X in NetWorker?”, and by how, I…

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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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You’re not the boss of me

Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…

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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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An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive

This is an adjunct post to the current series, “Data lifecycle management“, and is intended to provide a little more…

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