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…
Tag: testing
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…