NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging

One of the things that I forgot to mention earlier that’s included in the NetWorker 18.1 release is a function…

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3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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Basics – Prior Recovery Details

If you need to find out details about what has recently been recovered with a NetWorker server, there’s a few…

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What to do on world backup day

World backup day is approaching. (A few years ago now, someone came up with the idea of designating one day of the…

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What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?

There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…

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Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA

I’ve recently been doing some testing around Block Based Backups, and specifically recoveries from them. This has acted as an…

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Recovery survey

Back in 2012, I ran a survey to gauge some basic details about recovery practices within organisations. (The report from that survey…

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Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore

A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…

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A locale problem

I had a doozy of a problem a short while ago – NetWorker 8.2 in a big environment, and every…

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Recovery Survey Results

Thanks to everyone who provided responses into the recovery survey. It proved to be a very interesting insight into some…

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