micromanual for nsradmin

Join hundreds of others and download the NetWorker Power User's micromanual for nsradmin. Check this blog article for details.

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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Picking the best backup server

I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as strongly preferring Unix over Windows.

So when I’m asked “what operating system should I deploy my NetWorker server on?”, I tend to have to bite my tongue to not immediately respond with say, Solaris*.

The truth is, [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: General thoughts, NetWorker | Leave a comment

Offsite your bootstrap reports

I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available and you have to rebuild your NetWorker server, then you may potentially have to scan through a lot of media to find your most recent backup.

It’s all well and good having your bootstrap report emailed [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: NetWorker, Policies, Scripting | Leave a comment