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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Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed

Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database (the one created/maintained by nsrjobd). Unfortunately, at the time, jobquery had been somewhat muzzled – you could give it commands, and it would spit output back to you, but it would never give you any indication [...]

Why I'd choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker and NetBackup, I would choose NetWorker every time.

As you might expect, given my focus on backup as insurance, both of these reasons are firmly focused on recovery. In fact, so much so that I still [...]