Automated Testing of Virtual Machine Recoveries using NetWorker

While Avamar has options for automating the test of virtual machine recoveries, it’s not functionality that’s present in NetWorker. Recently…

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What’s your test environment?

While virtualisation has introduced additional complexities into our lives from a backup perspective, you can’t argue with the benefits it…

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Check in – New Years Resolutions

In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…

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Why backup theory is important

Obviously the NetWorker Blog gets a lot of referrals from search engines via people looking specifically for help on particular…

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What is a backup system?

One of the core concepts I try to drive home in my book is that you don’t get a backup…

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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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Of cascading failures and the need to test

Over at Daily WTF, there’s a new story that has two facets of relevance to any backup administrator. Titled “Bourne…

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Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)

A rather smart gent whom I used to work with at another company, Mark Harvey, has in his own time…

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