James Pyles of http://www.linux-tutorial.info gets the credit for the first “official” review of Backup & Recovery. (The Amazon.com user review is the first review of any kind.) He was flattering to the point of actually making my blush. In addition to saying very nice things about the book, he also pointed people to the new…
After waiting for almost a month to see the first review of Backup & Recovery, it just got it's first member review on Amazon.com. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data
I was seeing a lot of conflicting information going around about NetWorker with regard to cloning and multiplexing. Even I wasn't sure anymore how it worked. Does it preserve it or not? Does it do one thing for small savesets and another for larger ones? Does doing it via the GUI or the command line…
Seagate acquired Evault last month, in a surprise move. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data
They're just wrong. I'm working with someone who's performing a major NetBackup migration, where hundreds of client are moving from one master server to another. After way too much looking, we discovered why things weren't working: the customer was using bp.conf files in Oracle's home directory. It was a quick way to solve the multi-homed…
Backup & Recovery, the long awaited follow up to the very popular Unix Backup & Recovery, shipped today, Jan 5th. Order your copy now! It's actually a second book, not a second edition, as far more than the title has changed. The scope of the book has significantly changed, as it now includes Windows, Mac…
The long-awaited maintenance pack four (MP4) of NetBackup 6.0 was released today, and is available for download via HTTPAs the reader may be aware, NetBackup 6.0 was a major release for NetBackup. As such, there have been a number of major and minor bugs that have been discovered by early adopters of the product. MP4…
EMC officially acquired AVAMAR November 15th. AVAMAR is a market leader de-duplication backup software, identifying and eliminating redundant blocks of data before they are sent from the client to the backup server. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at…
CA extended its storage management portfolio with the acquisition privately-held XOsoft, Inc., a provider of continuous application availability solutions. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data
Atempo Inc., a data protection and storage security company, announced that it has acquired privately-held Storactive Inc. of Marina del Rey, CA, a provider of continuous data protection (CDP) software. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which…