Category Archives: Data Protection

Any­thing hav­ing to do with back­ing up data and dis­as­ter recov­ery. Dedu­pli­ca­tion, repli­ca­tion, Net­backup; you name it and you’ll find it here.

Interview Questions for a Netbackup Ninja.

By Alex | Published: November 1, 2009
With respect to data pro­tec­tion (I'm not going to call it backup, peo­ple. I much pre­fer smarmy and fancy word­play. Then again shiny objects fas­ci­nate me, too!) jobs and such, there's a num­ber of ques­tions that one can expect to be asked. I know that for my cur­rent job I was asked how to set up a three way NDMP backup [...]
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A Tangled Web of Dedupe We Weave…

By Alex | Published: October 22, 2009
It was the best of times and the worst of times… In data cen­ters, the world around, de-duplication is pretty much a "check box" item any­more. That is, it's pretty much stan­dard func­tion­al­ity within most data pro­tec­tion plat­forms avail­able today… Or it's the next exit on a product's roadmap. So it's gen­er­ally agreed that de-dupe tech­nol­ogy is a good [...]
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