Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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Holiday Wrap-Up

The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…

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Why I work in backups

I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset

Normally you don’t want to be in this position, but sometimes you’ll strike a situation where the only possible location…

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Snapshots and Backups, Part 2

Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…

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Snapshots and Backups

Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…

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Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery

A borked LaCie 2TB BigDisk Extreme has reminded me of the role of backup and recovery within disaster recovery itself.…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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