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Every backup you do has a half-life, which isn’t the retention period of the backup. Now, if you’re new to NetWorker, don’t go looking for a half life setting for clients or savesets or groups; I’m referring to a concept here rather than a literal configuration option. In most environments (in environments where the backup system [...] Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in the early 00′s. This had to be run within the customer datacentre, and the setup looked vaguely like this: As anyone who has worked within an actual datacentre computer room can attest to, these rooms get [...] The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that are configured, and software deployed, are the clients themselves. When sites look at upgrading their NetWorker environments though, the normal procedure is to upgrade the server and any storage nodes as the first step, then plan [...] The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Architecturally, there’s no reason why you have to have the NetWorker Management Console server running on the backup server itself. Both logically and architecturally, there are good reasons why you [...] Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a 70 to 80% chance that the answer would be one of the following: Only some very old systems that we decommissioned from production years ago I’d like to suggest that these days, [...] A very traditional approach to configuring automated backups in NetWorker is to make use of the schedule override feature in NetWorker groups. That is, by defining either a schedule or a level at the group level, the backup level from all clients in the group will be in lock-step. Pictorially, this configuration resembles the following: We [...] As I mentioned in an earlier post, EMC have announced on their community forum that there are some major changes on the way for ADV_FILE devices. In this post, I want to outline in a little more detail why these changes are important. Volume selection criteria One of the easiest changes to describe is the new volume [...] I had been aware for a while from an NDA conversation that these changes were on the way, but of course have not been able to discuss them. However, with EMC opening up discussion on the EMC Community Forum – i.e., out in public, I now feel that I can at least discuss how excited I [...] In the previous article, I covered the first five of ten reasons why tape is still important. Now, let’s consider the other five reasons. 6. Tape is greener for storage Offline storage of tape is cheap, from an environmental perspective. Depending on your locality, you may not even have to keep the storage area air-conditioned. Disk arrays and [...] Various companies will spin you their “tape is dead” story, and I’m the first to admit that the use pattern for tapes is evolving, but to anyone who claims that tape has lost its relevance, I’ll argue otherwise. This is part 1 of a 2 part article, and we’ll cover reasons 1 through 5 here. 1. Tape [...] |
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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 :-)
5 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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