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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Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…
Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…
The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…
Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…
Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…
For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…
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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