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Long time no type!
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Monday, 20 July 2009
Telecoms Mast in the MistWell it has been a long time since I have posted an article on this website. There are a few reasons for this but mainly it is down to a lack of time. Since my last update I have managed to get a new job working for a company owned by a leading university in the North of England. This is as a field network engineer which has proven to be quite a challenging and exciting job involving off road driving and Industrial Climbing. I have been in post now for nearly a year and as mentioned before I am now a fully qualified Advanced Industrial Climber as well as being well on my way to becoming an all singing all dancing network engineer. I am certainly being exposed to a considerable amount of telecoms and networking equipment and there is a fairly steep learning curve.
 
Secondly, back in November I attended the Army Officer selection board at Westbury and faced the Army's equivalent of the Dragon's Den. I am pleased to say I was successful and subsequently I have been commissioned into Lancashire Army Cadet Force with a Territorial Army Class B Commission. 
 
I have also bought a house with my lovely Fiance and we are currently amid the epic task of redecorating the entire house including a new kitchen and bathroom. But wait that is not all! My beloved Rover 75 suffered a beyond economical repair breakdown and I sold it as a runner for repair to a friendly chap from Hemel Hempstead of all places. Not to fear though as I have replaced it with a  BMW 528i SE E39 which is quite simply an absolutely fantastic car in almost every respect.
 
Well I am currently absolutely exhausted most of the time but there is plenty to celebrate and I do not take things for granted. No cause for complaints!
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 November 2009 )
 
Enterprise Backup Solutions (for the Mac)
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Thursday, 12 July 2007

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When it comes to backup products for the Apple Mac, you only really get three options: EMC's Retrospect, Archiware's PresStore and BakBone's Netvault. I have spent the last couple of months evaluating this software for use in an enterprise scale environment and have chosen PresStore as my backup product of choice. Why? Well configuration can be complicated and the licenses can be expensive, but the performance and reliablity of this software is very impressive indeed. Although I found the configuration to be unusually complicated and convoluted in comparison to Retrospect and Netvault (it is a steep learning curve), once it is setup the software is easy to use and incredibly powerful. 

Last Updated ( Thursday, 01 May 2008 )
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