Staging Systems vs Backup Systems

Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…

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Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging

Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…

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Basics – Need a different volume from pool …

The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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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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Basics – Staging

In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…

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