Avamar: Gym Built Version
I don’t normally write too much about Avamar. While it’s a great product with some excellent features, my background has always been in NetWorker. That being said, I am trained in Avamar and use it...
View ArticleData Domain: VTL vs Boost
If you’re looking at deploying Data Domain with NetWorker, but are coming from a physical tape or even an alternate virtual tape environment, you may look at the systems and think: “Should I use VTL or...
View ArticleVirtual synthetic fulls: A match made in heaven
One of the great new features in NetWorker 8.1 is virtual synthetic fulls. You may think the term ‘virtual synthetic’ sounds a bit meta, but it’s quite accurate when it refers to synthetic fulls being...
View ArticleData Domain Boost and Daily/Monthly Backups
One question that comes up every now and then concerns having an optimal approach to Data Domain Boost devices in NetWorker when doing both daily and monthly backups. Under NetWorker 7.x and lower,...
View ArticleArchitectural implications of in-flight Data Domain Boost encryption
Between the Boost libraries included in NetWorker 8.2, and the in-flight encryption functionality added in Data Domain OS 5.5, it’s now possible to configure Boost-encrypted backups – and there’ll be...
View Article2015 – that’s a wrap!
As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection enhancements we’ve seen over the year. There’s certainly been a lot! NetWorker 9 NetWorker 9 of...
View ArticleWho 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.,...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleHypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection
At VMworld, DellEMC announced a new backup technology for virtual machines called Hypervisor Direct, which represents a paradigm that I’d refer to as “convergent data protection”, since it mixes layers...
View ArticleGiving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker
Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply as device access brokers. That is, rather than having the NetWorker...
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