micromanual for nsradmin

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Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery

If you have an interest in, or work in data protection/backup and recovery environments, you should check out my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy. Designed for system administrators and managers alike, it focuses on features, policies, procedures and the human element to ensuring that your company has a suitable and working backup system.

 

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Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk

When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any change to the schedules. That is, daily incrementals (or differentials), with weekly fulls. This isn’t necessarily the best way to make use of backup to disk, and I’ll explain in this post way.

One of the [...]

Turbocharged administration with IDATA Tools

Introduction

I’ve long advocated that the best backup products are frameworks, rather than monoliths. A framework package is designed from the ground up to be extensible, via a comprehensive and well documented command line, on the basis that software designers can’t anticipate every possible need a user might have. This is a core requirement to backup [...]