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 – The decline of Microsoft

Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix background, equally as many people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. I’ll be honest – I have no great fondness for them, but I’m also practical enough to recognise that the chances of them falling over [...]

SysAdmin appreciation day

July 31 is System Administrator Appreciation day. Since most backup administrators are either system administrators or come from system administration roles, and since I started out in system administration, I think this is a great day.

Remember: system administrators often work tirelessly in the background, without getting noticed. In fact many system administrators often don’t get [...]

My worst recovery ever

Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes in your job may perhaps be either demented or live at right angles to reality.

I believe the best, the most realistic and useful thing we can aim for is to never make the same mistake [...]