Basics – Avamar Client Logs
If you’re new to Avamar, you might not know that the Avamar backup agent writes a lot of useful information to the client logs. In this post, I’m going to run through a few bits of information that I...
View ArticleA Simple Linux KVM Backup Framework using NetWorker
Of late I’ve been playing around a little bit with KVM. I must admit, it’s not really my virtualisation system of choice, but I’ve been using VMware in some form or another since the late 90s, so that...
View ArticleData Protection Search Overview
First up, a quick explanation: I’ve not posted a lot of late because I’ve spent most of my time outside of work in November preparing for a special date. On 30 November, on our 22nd anniversary, my...
View ArticleMulti-Systems Search
In my previous post, I walked through the process of getting Data Protection Search up and running – from that post, you’ll recall that DP Search is a powerful, web search system for your backup...
View ArticleStaging 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 it because there’s scenarios where I’m seeing so-called backup vendors preach to their customers...
View ArticleAustralia demands an end to data protection
Normally on the data protection blog I talk about data protection as it applies to functions such as backup and recovery, CDP, snapshots, etc. Data storage protection, you might say. But there are...
View ArticleData Protection Suite 18.2
Introduction Earlier this month, Data Protection Suite 18.2 was released. This covers: Avamar Data Protection Advisor (DPA) Data Protection Central (DPC) NetWorker Data Protection Search Boost for...
View ArticleHello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a blink of my eyes ago that I was sitting in my office on December 31, 1999, waiting to see whether...
View ArticleReflections on 2018
In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going to see dominating IT for the next decade, automation. It might sound trivial, but good automation is a...
View ArticleBasics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based configuration. While policies could be...
View ArticleBasics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement
When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering is built into the operating system, but smart backup applications such as...
View Article10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes
Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How old is your media? So that means this blog is now ten years old. In blog years, that...
View ArticleBasics – Change and Growth
I assume you’ve heard of the wheat and the chessboard problem. It often gets presented as part of the history of chess, or as some fable to teach the importance of understanding what you’re agreeing...
View ArticleData Domain 3300 Update
I love big Data Domains, don’t get me wrong. When you take an appliance like the Data Domain 9800 that can scale to almost 1PB usable, then apply 20:1, 30:1, 50:1 deduplication on top of that, you’re...
View ArticleUpdated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker
In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images in such a way that the configuration file and virtual disk files are backed up and...
View ArticleGDPR: Do your backups spark joy?
itnews Australia is reporting on a DLA Piper analysis of GDPR operations within Europe since it came into law in May 2018. GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation – is a fairly broad ranging set...
View ArticleBasics – Dynamic VMware Policies with NetWorker 18.2
I really love adaptive backup processes – that is, NetWorker and Avamar’s functions around defining dynamic selections of resources to be protected. To me, that’s the start of true set and forget data...
View ArticleBasics – The FARR Model
Public Cloud is one of those things that works great until it doesn’t. Now, there’s a lot of reasons why public cloud might stop working for you – it could be cost, complexity, business requirements,...
View ArticleData Domain Virtual Edition Extends Multi-Cloud Support
When Data Domain OS 6.2 was released, one of the new features enabled for virtual edition (DDVE) was support for the Google Compute Platform (GCP) aka Google Cloud. That support for GCP has been...
View ArticleUnderstanding Database Backup Methods
Introduction There’s always been a few different methods for database backups. Adding to the mix of course, businesses can have different levels of maturity when it comes to database backups, and this...
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