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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Aside – That old spindle problem

When I used to be a system administrator, back when 2GB hard drives were the norm, I remember an Oracle system that only needed about 4GB of storage space, but our Oracle savvy system administrator configured an environment with around 30 x 2GB drives.

That was my first introduction to spindles and their relationship to performance.

As [...]

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Architecture, Aside | 4 comments

Release notes are your friend

To me the most valuable documents produced by EMC in relation to NetWorker or the modules are the Release Notes. These accompany any cited version update and typically contain at least the following chunks of information:

New features to the product
Changes to existing behaviour
Fixed problems
Known issues and limitations

This information is gold. To anyone thinking of updating [...]

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: NetWorker | Leave a comment