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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Recommended reading: Asimov's 3 laws unsafe

Totally off topic, if you’re interested in AI at all, you may want to check out 3 Laws Unsafe, a site that takes a fresh and analytical look at the much touted “save humanity from evil robot/AI oppression” 3 laws of Robotics as proposed by Isaac Asimov. Personally, I’m not a fan of the 3 laws – [...]

Yet another "tape is dead" story. Ho-hum.

I’ve previously been amused by stories claiming that tape is dead due to disk backup or VTL being able to seamlessly replace tape. However, lately it just sounds like a tiresome broken record. It’s usually accompanied by poorly described comments such as “tape is unreliable” or “tape is slow”. Honestly, do people who make the [...]

Aside – How I stay organised

(Or, information is like water – you can drink from it, you can swim in it, or you can drown in it. What do you want to do?)

IT people work in what I’d refer to as information rich domains. That is, there’s a huge amount of information out there that can be of use, and [...]