Picking the best backup server
I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as strongly preferring Unix over Windows. So when I’m asked “what operating system should I deploy...
View ArticleWishlist – Server/Storage Node for Mac OS X
For some time I’ve wished NetWorker would support both storage node and server functions on Mac OS X. When I had a PPC 17″ PowerBook, this mostly came from the glacially slow performance of running...
View ArticleStaging and Connectivity Loss
For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that have intermittent connectivity between the server and storage nodes and that stage from ADV_FILE...
View ArticlePsst! Want to touch my backup server?
Last month, I posted a survey with the following questions: What is your backup server (currently)? Physical server Virtual server, backing up directly Virtual server, in director mode only Blade...
View ArticleVirtualised servers and storage nodes
A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long past time to revisit this topic and say that’s no longer a recommendation...
View ArticleBasics – 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...
View ArticleArchitectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?
As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale to thousands of physical clients managed in a single datazone, or tens of thousands...
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