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This is an appeal for information. I’ve heard conflicting stories and I can’t get rock solid clarification from any party. Despite Oracle initially announcing that Sun would continue to OEM NetWorker from EMC, I’ve subsequently been told by several Sun OEM customers that this has been recently abandoned. Since I’ve heard of Sun (under Oracle) dropping [...] I have, on a few occasions, been puzzled as to how to downgrade NetWorker on Mac OS X. There’s a couple of distinct issues that I’ve come up against, and I thought I’d outline them here now that I’ve fully resolved how to do it. The first is that when NetWorker installs, it’s meant to install [...] NetWorker 7.5 SP3 has been released today, and with it comes a selection of important changes, including: ADV_FILE devices now use enhanced load balancing selection criteria; in short, NetWorker will start new backups on the device that has the least NetWorker data written to it; 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 [...] While I was on my blog hiatus, IDATA Tools v4.2 was released, and I’ve been meaning to outline what has been delivered in this version. This release focused on making key enhancements to existing tools, and covers: ToolEnhancements backup-reportIntroduced new comprehensive mode. When run on the GST server, this utility can now report on backup failures as well [...] 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 [...] There’s long been discussion – particularly between support partners and EMC – about the rather cloak-and-dagger way that cumulative patch clusters have been made available for downloads. Or not made available, as the case may be. Recently though, that’s changed. Cumulative patch clusters, if you’re not aware, are collections of patches to individual releases that effectively [...] |
 And #ff to @PossibilityCity @prestondeguise @simonrob451 @tbecchetti @tompetrocelli @toonzone @VisibleOps @vnagornyi
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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