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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Let's have a Green 2010

While much of business has moved into the twenty-first century, one thing that continues to demonstrate a profound stuck-in-the-80′s mentality is the demand for on-site work. To be sure, there are some levels of work that have to be conducted on-site. It’s somewhat challenging to do hardware work remotely, for instance, unless you have a [...]

Going on holiday? Don't upgrade first

So you’re a busy backup administrator and you’re getting ready to go on leave. It’s 4pm on your final day before the holiday, you’ve finally got everything off your plate, and you think to yourself, “Now I’ve finally got the time, I’ll just quickly upgrade NetWorker before I leave.”

This unfortunately is an alternative of that [...]

Introducing the NetWorker Information Hub

Part of my goal in moving the blog from WordPress to a dedicated site was to be able to start adding more material that doesn’t necessarily fit within the confines of a standard blog.

Starting today, I’ve launched the NetWorker Information Hub, which I hope to build as a repository of knowledge about EMC NetWorker, with [...]

NetWorker 7.6 and nsr_render_log

You may recall that in an earlier article, “(In)securing your logs using nsr_render_log -z“, I pointed out that the “-z” option, advertised as capable of obfuscating host and user details to make the log truly anonymous did, at best, an extremely poor job of doing so and should be considered untrustworthy.

As a result of the [...]

Happy holidays

In the spirit of this site, I hope that:

You’re all able to take a break;
All your backups run smoothly while you’re on that break;
No-one needs a recovery while you’re gone, and if they do –
Someone else knows how to do it.

For the next week I’ll be concentrating on getting the rest of nsrd.info up and [...]

What I've learnt this year...

As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d spend a few minutes jotting down the major (technology) related lessons I’ve learnt this year. I’m not talking about training lessons, but rather, real world lessons that have real implications for my day to day work and what I’d recommend to customers (or anyone else [...]

Overland Storage on the ropes?

The Register reports that Overland Storage is on the ropes, as far as the Nasdaq as concerned. While delisting from the Nasdaq wouldn’t automatically be a killer sentence for Overland, it does point out the ongoing trend in storage – the consolidation of the marketplace to fewer vendors with larger market capitalisations able to survive [...]

Welcome to the new site

I’d like to welcome everyone to the new site. I’ve transferred across all previous posts and comments and I’m pleased to say the process went remarkably smoothly.

I’m still sorting out email subscriptions on a non-Wordpress hosted blog, and may choose a slightly different option for this – I’ll have an update on this topic in [...]

Seasons greetings from the NetWorker Blog

I’d like to take a moment to wish all the regular readers – and any new visitors – a very safe and happy holiday season. There’s too many of you to send cards out to everyone (even if I knew all your contact details) so I thought I’d give seasons greetings through a suitably NetWorker [...]

Show me the man pages

As a long term Unix admin, it’s frustrating when there are commands on my systems for which there aren’t man pages. As a long-term NetWorker user, it’s equally frustrating when there aren’t man pages for particular NetWorker commands.

When I’ve discussed this in the past, I’ve usually had a response of “that’s because you shouldn’t be [...]