Category Archives: Data Protection

VMware snapshots - best practices and recommendations

Recently I had a long discussion with my customer about problems in their VMware environment. We needed to find a solution for the below problems (almost) caused by snapshots: Insufficient disk space on datastore Problem with the backup of VMs Problem with VMs performance During our conversation and my investigation of VMware infrastructure I noted such important things:… Read More »

NetBackup Master Server Disaster Recovery - Overview

In this article we discuss the High Availability/Disaster Recovery for the NetBackup Master Server. NetBackup is a scalable, heterogeneous backup system which can be used to backup primary but also secondary site. DR for NetBackup Master Server should be prepared and can be based on follow possibilites: Disaster Recovery with full or partial catalog recovery Full catalog recovery is… Read More »