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Data isn’t data isn’t data
An integral part of effective data protection is data awareness. You can’t adequately protect what you don’t know about, but similarly, you can’t adequately protect what you don’t understand, either....
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Client Load: Filesystem and Database Backups
A question I get asked periodically is “can I backup my filesystem and database at the same time?” As is often the case, the answer is: “it depends”. Or, to put it another way: it depends on what the...
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2015 NetWorker Usage Report
The NetWorker usage survey for 2015 saw 140 respondents across all geographic regions, and provided some excellent details on continuing trends, as well as picking up on some new correlations – such as...
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Who should handle your database backups?
I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application owners (i.e., DBAs) have traditionally been reluctant to have other people (i.e.,...
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NetWorker 8.2 SP3
At the start of the week we saw NetWorker 8.2 SP3 released. Now, you might think given NetWorker 9 is out there’s no new features in NetWorker 8.2 SP3, but you’d be wrong. NetWorker 9 is a jump – it’s...
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Data Domain Goes Virtual
This week was a big one for the data protection industry, with the official release of Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). DDVE offers the same deduplication capabilities as its physical cousin,...
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The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated
It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a senior Unix system administrator in the team I’d just joined, and it shaped my career. In just...
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Data Domain in 30 Minutes Or Less
I’ve been working my way through a pretty intense cold the last few days. To avoid spending the entire weekend playing Minecraft while I convalesce, I downloaded the newly released Data Domain Virtual...
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Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS
Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons you might end up in this situation – you might need to backup data on a particularly...
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How many copies do I need?
So you’ve got your primary data stored on one array and it replicates to another array. How many backup copies do you need? There’s no doubt we’re spawning more and more copies and pseudo-copies of our...
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Betting the company
Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery specialist to be asked how we can protect...
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Basics – Linux File Level Recovery from VMware Image Level Backups
NetWorker 9 introduced a new, pure HTML5 web interface for the File Level Recovery interface for VBA, which works much the same way as the v8.x FLR, just without Flash. However, it also introduced...
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NetWorker 9.0 SP1
NetWorker 9.0 SP1 (aka “9.0.1”) was released at the end of June. I meant to blog about it pretty much as soon as it came out, but the Australian Federal election distracted me last weekend, and then on...
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Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker
Overview As I mentioned in the previous article, NetWorker 9 SP1 has introduced a REST API. I’ve never previously got around to playing with REST API interfaces, but as is always the case with...
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Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA
I’ve recently been doing some testing around Block Based Backups, and specifically recoveries from them. This has acted as an excellent reminder of two things for me: Microsoft killing Technet is a...
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Backing up Oracle with NMDA
In previous posts I’ve talked about options around database backups – specifically whether you’d use a NetWorker module or say, DDBoost for Enterprise Applications. There’s a lot of architectural...
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And now a word from my sponsor
This post is a little off-topic, I’ll admit that in advance. But I wanted to add a bit of a message from my sponsor. You may not realise it, but throughout all the years I’ve been blogging about...
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Data Domain Updates
I was on annual leave last week (and this week I find myself in Santa Clara). Needless to say, the big announcements are often seemed to neatly align with when I go on annual leave, and last week was...
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Basics – Understanding NetWorker Architecture
With the NetWorker 9 architecture now almost 12 months old, I thought it was long past time I do a Basics post covering how the overall revised architecture for data protection with NetWorker...
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Falling in love with the IRS
Years ago when NetWorker Management Console was first introduced, Australians (and no doubt people in other countries with a similarly named tax law) found themselves either amused or annoyed having to...
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