When do I invoke Cyber Recovery?

Introduction Here’s a question I get asked quite frequently: “If we have a vault, how will the vault team know…

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Avamar Basics – VMware Changed Block Tracking Recoveries

One of the most useful recoveries you can do in Avamar, NetWorker or PowerProtect Data Manager is the changed block…

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Basics – Using the NetWorker HTML UI for File-Level Recovery

One of the changes introduced in NetWorker 19.3 was the inclusion of file-level recoverability from traditional backups via the NetWorker…

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Basics – NetWorker Multiple Virtual Machine Recovery Operation

Here’s a really great function of NetWorker: being able to kick off the recovery of multiple virtual machines simultaneously. One…

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Automated Testing of Virtual Machine Recoveries using NetWorker

While Avamar has options for automating the test of virtual machine recoveries, it’s not functionality that’s present in NetWorker. Recently…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries

In this continuing PPDM basics series, I wanted to step you through the process of the following two activities: Performing…

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Meme Monday

Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…

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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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Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?

Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…

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Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1

Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…

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