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- July 2010 (9)
- 27: Why I work in backups (1)
- 24: What’s happening with Sun OEM NetWorker? (5)
- 22: An appeal for better manners (8)
- 20: Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X (3)
- 16: NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released (8)
- 14: The Half-Life of a Backup (0)
- 12: Know your environment (0)
- 10: IDATA Tools v4.2 (0)
- 07: Why upgrade clients? (4)
- June 2010 (9)
- 30: Plenty of life left in tape (0)
- 28: Telling facts (0)
- 23: Microsoft, start your copiers (1)
- 23: Divorcing NMC from NetWorker (5)
- 22: Site outage (1)
- 15: 7 rules for system administrators (0)
- 09: Managing NetWorker from an iPad (3)
- 07: Error lifecycle management (0)
- 03: Virtualisation and testing (0)
- May 2010 (7)
- 31: Site update (3)
- 15: Hiatus…? (0)
- 10: Large group backups (0)
- 07: Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold (2)
- 05: What’s missing with thin provisioning? (0)
- 04: 7.5.2 and ADV_FILE devices (7)
- 03: Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker (0)
- April 2010 (17)
- 28: Client inactivity timeout is not group timeout (5)
- 26: ADV_FILE operational changes (7)
- 24: Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset (0)
- 22: RIP Solaris (4)
- 20: Coming ADV_FILE changes (6)
- 19: Basics – Skip and Forget (0)
- 16: Using NetWorker Client with Opensolaris (4)
- 14: 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2) (4)
- 13: nsrd.info forums (1)
- 12: 10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1) (4)
- 09: There is no magic bullet (2)
- 09: Aside – An argument against internet censorship (1)
- 07: It’s a bit like fishy custard (0)
- 07: March, in a nutshell (0)
- 06: Basics – Previewing Directives (0)
- 02: EMC, Sun and Oracle (0)
- 01: NetWorker 7.6 SP1 (4)
- March 2010 (19)
- 30: What a day! (0)
- 30: LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel (0)
- 28: Book Drive (0)
- 27: What’s wrong with vendor training? (1)
- 26: RIP NetWare (1)
- 25: Cumulative patch clusters (2)
- 24: Barcode categories create issues (3)
- 22: NetWorker Survey Results (7)
- 20: Aside – NetWorker Documentation (0)
- 18: NetWorker Usage Survey – Don’t forget to vote! (0)
- 17: The perils of an Icarus support contract (1)
- 15: Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement (2)
- 11: NetWorker survey (1)
- 11: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux (2)
- 09: NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do (1)
- 05: Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features (2)
- 03: ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies (1)
- 02: Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?
- 01: Aside – Top Stories for February (0)
- February 2010 (17)
- 27: Basics – VTLs and default media sizes (0)
- 25: NetWorker 7.5.2 – What’s it got? (4)
- 24: NetWorker 7.5.2 (NetWorker 7.5 SP2) released (5)
- 22: Basics – Need a different volume from pool … (2)
- 20: Of Unicorns and Horses (0)
- 18: The case of Dell and the Interdicted Disks (3)
- 16: What should your toolkit look like? (0)
- 15: Aside – The Great Shrinking Disk Drive (0)
- 14: A new vendor battle (0)
- 13: Sometimes it’s not my problem (0)
- 11: Backup is Insurance (2)
- 10: Oh come on, pull the other one (0)
- 08: Snapshots and Backups, Part 2 (0)
- 06: Snapshots and Backups (5)
- 04: Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode (1)
- 02: All your data are belong to us (0)
- 01: January’s Top Post (0)
- January 2010 (28)
- 30: nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found (2)
- 28: iPad = iManage (6)
- 28: A blast from the past (1)
- 27: Killing me softly? I never liked the song either. (2)
- 26: Backup forms only a fraction of disaster recovery (0)
- 25: 7.5.1.9 cumulative patch cluster released (0)
- 25: Cumulative patch release for 7.6 (0)
- 23: IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape (0)
- 23: Earth to EMC NetWorker Engineering: Wake Up (0)
- 22: Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape (4)
- 21: Do you know your end of support dates? (0)
- 20: NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups (1)
- 18: The importance of full backups (3)
- 17: Nybbles for the end of the week (2)
- 17: Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows (0)
- 15: The law of least astonishment and backups (0)
- 14: All this DeDupe is making me thirsty! (0)
- 13: Availability and Uptime (2)
- 12: Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups (1)
- 12: Get off 7.2 and 7.3 (3)
- 10: Search, search, search. It’s all about search. (0)
- 08: Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed (0)
- 08: Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time (5)
- 07: The A-Z of Backup and Recovery (0)
- 06: The top 10 for 2009 (0)
- 04: Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small (0)
- 04: micromanual: NetWorker Power User Guide to nsradmin (11)
- 01: What’s happening in 2010 (0)
- December 2009 (27)
- 29: Let’s have a Green 2010 (0)
- 28: Going on holiday? Don’t upgrade first (2)
- 27: Introducing the NetWorker Information Hub (0)
- 27: NetWorker 7.6 and nsr_render_log (2)
- 25: Happy holidays (0)
- 23: What I’ve learnt this year… (2)
- 22: Overland Storage on the ropes? (0)
- 22: Welcome to the new site (2)
- 21: Seasons greetings from the NetWorker Blog (0)
- 21: Show me the man pages (4)
- 20: Aside – My Number #1 Pet Peeve in Interface Design (0)
- 18: What's been happening this week? (2)
- 17: Introducing the Support and Services page
- 16: Pictorial representation of management happiness over OpEx cost savings (4)
- 15: Fingers Crossed for some New Years Resolutions from EMC (2)
- 15: The pros and cons of Legato License Manager (12)
- 14: 15 crazy things I never want to hear again (1)
- 13: Maybe I'm just an old Unix hack… (3)
- 11: This holiday season, give your inner geek a gift (4)
- 10: Long term NetWare recovery (0)
- 09: …And why I’ll stick to Parallels (4)
- 08: Funny attitude adjustments (2)
- 07: How complex is your backup environment? (2)
- 07: Aside – This time, 10 years ago (0)
- 04: Validcopies hazardous to your sanity (1)
- 02: Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker (2)
- 01: November’s top article (0)
- November 2009 (32)
- 30: EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup (3)
- 28: Introducing my new blog (0)
- 28: The lighter side… (0)
- 28: Aside – Adobe Bloatware (2)
- 27: First thoughts – VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop v5 (11)
- 26: Nybbles (0)
- 25: Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE (2)
- 24: Storage Tiering vs ILM (2)
- 23: NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) (0)
- 21: NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring (7)
- 21: NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment (6)
- 19: SNMP is Simply Not My Problem (0)
- 18: Can you trust Azure? (2)
- 18: Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture (3)
- 16: Quibbles – Why can't I rename clients in the GUI? (0)
- 14: NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux (9)
- 14: And I had thought it was some marketing stunt… (0)
- 13: Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID! (5)
- 13: Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X (0)
- 12: Merits of target based deduplication (5)
- 11: Lessons I've recently learned… (0)
- 10: The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery (0)
- 08: 20 years… (2)
- 08: Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF (0)
- 07: Maybe it's just as well… (3)
- 06: Wait! Don't apply that service pack! (0)
- 05: NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs (8)
- 04: Why you should love timesheets (0)
- 02: Why /nsr/tmp is wrong (0)
- 02: Google service and accountability in The Cloud (1)
- 01: The fall and decline of Microsoft (0)
- 01: October Hits (0)
- October 2009 (26)
- 30: Please, No! (1)
- 28: Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge? (2)
- 27: Quibbles – Why can't you clone or stage incomplete savesets? (2)
- 26: Dedupe to tape is "crazy bad" if the architecture is crazy (5)
- 26: Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle (0)
- 25: Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere (6)
- 23: Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3! (0)
- 22: Enhancing RFEs (6)
- 21: Don't resent your log files! (0)
- 20: Quibbles – Directive Management Redux (1)
- 17: The scandalous truth about Clouds (2)
- 16: Staging and Connectivity Loss (1)
- 15: Basics – Default pool debugging 101 (0)
- 14: Is Sidekick a Cloud Failure? (5)
- 13: Recovery is NOT #3 (0)
- 12: Sidekick is dead – lessons in data loss (2)
- 12: Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing (4)
- 09: Uptime is an inappropriate metric (4)
- 08: A cautionary tale about changing pools (0)
- 07: NetWorker Resource Relationships (0)
- 06: Charting vendor blogging contribution (0)
- 05: How much aren’t you backing up? (2)
- 04: Larry Ellison vs The Cloud (1)
- 03: Hearing hype? Do a TNB test (2)
- 02: Obligations were popular in September (0)
- 01: Using NetWorker for Live Search (0)
- September 2009 (29)
- 30: Is a "copy" a "backup"? (0)
- 30: Client side compression and saveset sizes (1)
- 28: LTO-5 Update (0)
- 28: Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units (0)
- 26: Aside – Dust storms in NSW (0)
- 25: Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries (0)
- 24: Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts (4)
- 23: Aside – The exciting world of SSD (0)
- 23: Basics – Standalone drive auto media management (2)
- 22: Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM (6)
- 21: Basics – Directed Recoveries (2)
- 19: Aside – Victoria Tourism (0)
- 19: What's backup got to do with it? (0)
- 18: NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux (0)
- 16: The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators (10)
- 15: Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker (0)
- 14: IDATA Tools v4.1 out now (0)
- 12: Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again (4)
- 11: British PM acknowledges and apologises for treatment of Alan Turing (2)
- 10: Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk (0)
- 09: You can't escape cloning with cross-site backups (0)
- 08: Basics – Staging (0)
- 07: Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules (0)
- 05: Aside – EMC Acquires Kazeon (1)
- 03: Quibbles – Directive Management (4)
- 02: Basics – Auto media verify (0)
- 02: Book some time with the book (0)
- 01: Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla (1)
- 01: Most popular in August (0)
- August 2009 (29)
- 30: (Semi) Aside – Interesting article on practical heuristics (0)
- 29: Basics – What inode did that file have when it was backed up? (2)
- 28: NetWorker and Snow Leopard (4)
- 27: Backup does not suck (0)
- 25: Zero Error Policy Management (1)
- 25: Backup is a production activity (3)
- 24: What does supported mean? (3)
- 22: Aside – Data Visualisation (2)
- 21: Cloud Computing vs The Network Computer (4)
- 20: Aside – District 9 (0)
- 20: Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting (0)
- 19: Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks (0)
- 18: Basics – Updates vs Upgrades (0)
- 17: NetWorker 7.4.5 – Should you update? (3)
- 17: What's wrong with the NMC installation process? (0)
- 15: NetWorker 7.4.5 (0)
- 13: Wishlist – Server/Storage Node for Mac OS X (0)
- 13: Quibbles – Cloning and Staging (0)
- 11: What is a zero error policy? (13)
- 10: When will tape die? (7)
- 08: VTLs and media load/unload times (0)
- 07: Manual backups and the ‘quiet’ option (0)
- 05: Using the NetWorker Software Distribution Functionality (5)
- 04: Aside – Other World Computing (0)
- 04: Wish list – Extension to "scheduled backup" (1)
- 03: NetWorker 7.4.4.7 is out (0)
- 03: NetWorker vs Scratch pools (0)
- 02: Aside – The scourge of filesystems (2)
- 01: Last month's top story (0)
- July 2009 (29)
- 31: Aside – The decline of Microsoft (0)
- 31: SysAdmin appreciation day (1)
- 31: My worst recovery ever (0)
- 30: Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs? (0)
- 29: Aside – Evolution of Logos (0)
- 29: Sub-saveset checkpointing would be good (0)
- 28: Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options (2)
- 27: NetWorker Single Server Edition (0)
- 25: Aside – How much is a Petabyte? (0)
- 25: Mistakes you don’t want to make (0)
- 24: Using SELinux with NetWorker (2)
- 22: Of cascading failures and the need to test (0)
- 20: Aside – That old spindle problem (4)
- 20: Release notes are your friend (0)
- 19: Aside – Consulting tips (0)
- 17: Top 5 Reflections (10)
- 16: Quibbles – A better NetWorker init script would be nice… (3)
- 15: Directives and change control (0)
- 14: Aside – On second thoughts, escalate that please (0)
- 13: Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux) (31)
- 13: Basics – NetWorker differential levels (0)
- 11: Take a peek at Going Virtual (0)
- 10: Upgrading NetWorker and the 'tmp' directory (0)
- 09: Basics – Achieving higher frequency backups (0)
- 08: Basics – Null vs Skip Directives (2)
- 05: The Dual Evils – Malware, and Malware Protection (0)
- 03: Are you Monitoring RAP? (0)
- 02: Media, CapEx and OpEx (0)
- 01: My Personal NetWorker Wish List (4)
- June 2009 (29)
- 30: Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism (0)
- 28: Backup is insurance (0)
- 27: Thinking green? Think tape (3)
- 26: Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server (1)
- 25: Cautions for running NetWorker daemons manually (0)
- 24: Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server (4)
- 22: Caveats for using high debug levels when investigating an issue (0)
- 21: Great VMware coverage (0)
- 21: Aside – Who will mourn traditional news? (0)
- 20: Aside – Siftables (TED) (0)
- 20: NetWorker 7.5 and changes to browse/retention times (0)
- 19: When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster? (0)
- 17: In-lab review of the impact of dense filesystems (2)
- 17: Support at IDATA
- 16: 7.5.1 Cumulative patches (2)
- 14: Mozying along (2)
- 13: Computer poster ads from the 1980's (0)
- 12: Nothing is simple (0)
- 11: HSM implications for backup (2)
- 10: Aside – Failures in Interface Design (0)
- 09: Spacing out full backups (0)
- 08: Don't forget, there's a whole lot more in the book (0)
- 06: Design considerations for ADV_FILE devices (12)
- 05: Architectural failings of monolithic personal mail databases (7)
- 04: In memory of Tiananmen Square (0)
- 04: (In)securing your daemon.raw with nsr_render_log -z (2)
- 03: What is /nsr/debug? (3)
- 02: Sydney to Perth Lambretta Ride for Cancer Funding (0)
- 01: Debugging autochanger operations (0)
- May 2009 (25)
- 29: Should you use NAS for disk backup? (3)
- 29: Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs (1)
- 27: Basics – Important mminfo fields (0)
- 26: Using yum to install NetWorker on Linux (2)
- 25: Impact of high speed tape on backup (0)
- 23: Finding files in your indices (0)
- 22: Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs (5)
- 21: Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup? (0)
- 20: Why I'll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes (1)
- 19: Aside – International data roaming (0)
- 18: Backups are not about being miserly (4)
- 17: Basics – Stopping and restarting NetWorker on Mac OS X (0)
- 15: Keep your logs (1)
- 14: Leaving on a jet plane (0)
- 14: When should you clean your drives? (3)
- 13: Basics – mmpool (2)
- 13: Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher (2)
- 11: Dealing with low-bandwidth connection to storage nodes (0)
- 11: Aside – Marketing (0)
- 10: Determining your NetWorker binary build details (0)
- 09: Aside – Are voice command interfaces the way of the future? (2)
- 09: Aside – Nomenclature page (0)
- 07: NetWorker 7.5 and Oracle Module 5 (19)
- 06: Merits of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) (1)
- 04: Client operating systems should not be changed (0)
- April 2009 (17)
- 30: IDATA Tools v4 (3)
- 29: Screen shots don't constitute logs (0)
- 28: Basics – nsrlic (0)
- 26: Meet your library (0)
- 25: Aside – Keyboards (4)
- 25: 7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file (7)
- 23: Ready for {reading|writing}, idle (0)
- 22: Why interfaces must be beautiful as well as functional (0)
- 22: Recovering with scanner and uasm (2)
- 20: Basics – nsraddadmin (0)
- 16: Difficult 'recover' scenarios (4)
- 15: Fiji (0)
- 15: Aside – the three rules of good coffee (4)
- 15: NetWorker 7.5.1, Software Repository and Solaris x86/Solaris AMD (0)
- 08: Basics – jbverify (0)
- 03: Basics – no_striped_recover (0)
- 02: Zeroth tier: the backup director (0)
- March 2009 (20)
- 31: SciFi without Asimov's laws of robotics (0)
- 31: NetWorker 7.5.1 Released (10)
- 30: Expecting a more complete backup (7)
- 28: EMC helping out Quantum (0)
- 28: You know what would be great…? (0)
- 26: Basics – No two groups should start simultaneously (2)
- 24: NetWorker's little brother gets a pair of long pants (0)
- 22: Basics – Using datazone encryption with NetWorker (4)
- 20: Don't forget, there's a whole lot more in the book (0)
- 19: Thoughts on IBM and Sun in acquisition discussions… (0)
- 19: Ethical obligations of backup administrators (1)
- 14: Is your LTO media compatible with your drives? (0)
- 12: Quibbles – Client GUI (4)
- 10: What would you like to see in advanced training? (3)
- 09: Basics – Setting cleaning tape usage/registering a cleaning tape (0)
- 06: Aside – My take on Time Machine (1)
- 05: Does your backup administrator have a say in change control? (1)
- 03: Basics – Remote Control (0)
- 02: Space occupied by inactive files (0)
- 01: An old dog can always learn new tricks (rpcinfo) (0)
- February 2009 (34)
- 27: Basics – Commands you should know Part 2 (0)
- 26: Is your backup server fast enough? (2)
- 25: Index backups for recovery (5)
- 25: Recording Client IDs (0)
- 25: Tape libraries and the hidden speeds (0)
- 24: Traps when upgrading from 7.3.x to 7.4.x – CDI (2)
- 23: Basics – Fixing "NSR peer information" errors (22)
- 21: Recommended reading: Asimov's 3 laws unsafe (2)
- 21: Yet another "tape is dead" story. Ho-hum. (0)
- 21: Aside – How I stay organised (4)
- 20: Audit is not a 4-letter word (0)
- 19: Getting jobquery to talk to you (1)
- 18: Basics – Commands you should know (3)
- 17: Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker (24)
- 16: Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times (11)
- 13: Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes (10)
- 12: Basics – Why nsrwatch is still needed (0)
- 12: Quibbles – I know I'm depositing tapes, dummy! (0)
- 11: Basics – Stopping and starting NetWorker from the Windows command line (0)
- 10: New version of IDATA Tools (0)
- 10: Timeout – Victorian Bush Fire Relief (0)
- 10: Basics – dbgcommand (1)
- 09: Picking the best backup server (0)
- 09: Offsite your bootstrap reports (0)
- 08: Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag (0)
- 08: 9 brain habits you didn't realise you had (0)
- 07: Distribution plug – SME Server (3)
- 07: The naming of backup servers (0)
- 05: Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk (2)
- 05: Turbocharged administration with IDATA Tools (11)
- 04: Recommended reading (2)
- 03: Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units (2)
- 02: nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows (0)
- 01: Basics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than (4)
- January 2009 (8)
- 29: How important is it to clone? (11)
- 27: Basics – Listing files in a backup (5)
- 25: Using probe based backups in NetWorker (1)
- 25: NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X (0)
- 25: NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem (1)
- 25: Learning NetWorker (4)
- 25: Instantiating savesets (9)
- 25: How old is your media? (0)
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