Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?

As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale…

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Basics – Understanding NetWorker Architecture

With the NetWorker 9 architecture now almost 12 months old, I thought it was long past time I do a Basics…

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Virtualised servers and storage nodes

A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long…

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Psst! Want to touch my backup server?

Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server,…

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Staging and Connectivity Loss

For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…

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Wishlist – Server/Storage Node for Mac OS X

For some time I’ve wished NetWorker would support both storage node and server functions on Mac OS X. When I…

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Picking the best backup server

I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…

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