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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Index backups for recovery

We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able to recover the indices is pretty important.

There’s something which is often forgotten however when it comes to index backups, and if you don’t know about it, you may get stung.

In some environments, when a client [...]

Recording Client IDs

My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker datazone.

I plan on making his suggestion slightly redundant for users of IDATA Tools – I plan to update the client-report utility to include the client ID to assist with this very strategy.

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Tape libraries and the hidden speeds

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list that was sparked by someone asking what sort of LTO-4 library would be recommended by the community.

This led to some very interesting and useful feedback to the person posing the question. A lot of people had feedback about different libraries they’d used – both good [...]