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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Basics – Why nsrwatch is still needed

In a previous post, I bemoaned the lack of nsrwatch on Windows. I thought it would be worthwhile pointing out an example of where nsrwatch comes in handy, for the non-believers.

You’re on the road, you don’t have the option of pulling your laptop out, and you need to check on the state of your NetWorker [...]

Quibbles – I know I'm depositing tapes, dummy!

I know this is a minor quibble – and for the most part, minor quibbles sum up the issues that I have with NetWorker. However, it annoys the hell out of me.

Somewhere, someone in the development team at EMC got the bright idea for NetWorker 7.3 that for “usability” and “consistency” reasons, it would become [...]