Should you use NAS for disk backup?

Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…

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Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs

I’ve recently discovered a site with a prosaic name of “DailyWTF” … obviously aimed at technical people, it frequently covers…

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Basics – Important mminfo fields

Most NetWorker administrators with even a passing familiarity of mminfo will be aware of the “savetime” field, which reports when…

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Using yum to install NetWorker on Linux

If you’re using CentOS, or another RedHat style Linux that happens to include the yum package manager, installing NetWorker on…

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Impact of high speed tape on backup

Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…

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Finding files in your indices

Everyone has had that horror recovery scenario, where a user wants a file recovered, but they can’t tell you where…

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Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs

OK, there’s not a lot about NetWorker that drives me nuts. I think I’ve done only one other “Quibbles” topic…

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Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup?

This is a fairly common question to see asked – does NetWorker, when a non-full backup is run, scan the…

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Why I’ll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes

There’s been a great deal of discussion over Wolfram|Alpha’s new search or “computational” engine over the last few months. What’s…

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Aside – International data roaming

Last week, between Thursday and Sunday, I was in New Zealand. Of course, I did the normal thing for an…

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