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While this is pertinent to all versions of NetWorker, it particularly seems relevant mentioning now, since as of 7.5.2, we’re now seeing revised messaging from NetWorker when a tape becomes prematurely full. These new messages now state: nsrd media notice: LTO Ultrium-4 tape 800814L4 used 2039 MB of 800 GB capacity As I mentioned in a post yesterday, NetWorker 7.5.2 (or NetWorker 7.5 SP2) has been released, and with it comes a bunch of feature enhancements as well as a slew of bug fixes. One of the criticisms of EMC’s development process for NetWorker for a while was that a new service pack would come out with [...] Typical that it happens on a day when I’m travelling, but NetWorker 7.5 SP2 (aka NetWorker 7.5.2) has been released today. There’s a bunch of updates and bug fixes in this release – I actually have really high hopes for it based on discussions I’ve had with various folks at EMC. I’m about to start an [...] The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) This is a relatively easy problem to explain. Let’s first look at the log messages that happens. To generate this error, I started cloning some data to the [...] Is your backup system a unicorn, or is it a horse? If you’re thinking I’m off my rocker asking such an odd question, don’t worry, I haven’t temporarily taken leave of my senses. To assure you that I haven’t taken an odd turn, this is a continuation of a previous post – How Complex is your [...] Covered in several places last week, including The Standalone Sysadmin, was the story about Dell updating their RAID firmware/systems on the latest PowerEdge servers to block the use of non-Dell supplied disks. The offending support letter from Dell (quoting as per Standalone Sysadmin) reads: Howard_Shoobe at Dell.com Howard_Shoobe at Dell.com Thank you very [...] There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. In order to get the most out of it, you should have a toolkit of utilities and applications that are there, at your beck and call, to help you get the most out of your backup system. It doesn’t [...] Over at Xiotech’s blog, there’s an interesting piece about the evolution of 2.5″ drives in enterprise storage titled The Great Shrinking Disk Drive. I’m not 100% convinced of Xiotech’s argument, but over the years I’ve seen increasing use of 2.5″ drives in enterprise computing – particularly to decrease the footprint and power requirements for DAS in [...] We’re used to seeing EMC and NetApp punch it out in the blogosphere and tweetverse, with the occasional pause from both of them to have a minor dust-up with the likes of HP, IBM or HDS, but component manufacturers don’t seem to normally go for such … abrasive^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdedicated … web behaviour. A couple of weeks ago [...] I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing that work because it’s about fixing their issues and either getting them up and running again (if it was a serious issue), or helping them with something they’d not done before. In short, I like helping [...] |
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4 hours ago @iCoolen Seems to be affecting about 8 or 9 people I know at the moment. At least I know it's not just me, thankfully :-)
4 hours ago @prestondeguise OK. Just so you know, I am still online with MSN. So it might be something local to you. Good luck with that.
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