This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service and after the funeral and the burial we headed off to the wake, only to have someone’s hilux slam into the driver’s side of our car on a tight bend. They’d skidded and come onto [...]
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While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more directly. Using ADV_FILE devices can play havoc with conventional tape rotation strategies; if you aren’t aware of these implications, it could cause operational challenges when it comes time to do recovery from tape. Let’s look at [...] My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that backup and archive are all achieved through the same product interface, then how many companies out there assign the role of archive administrator to the backup administrator? (Or vice versa). I like this question; it’s kind [...] So you’re a busy backup administrator and you’re getting ready to go on leave. It’s 4pm on your final day before the holiday, you’ve finally got everything off your plate, and you think to yourself, “Now I’ve finally got the time, I’ll just quickly upgrade NetWorker before I leave.” This unfortunately is an alternative of that [...] Over the years I’ve dealt with a lot of different environments, and a lot of different usage requirements for backup products. Most of these fall into the “appropriate business use” categories. Some fall into the “hmmm, why would you do that?” category. Others fall into the “please excuse my brain it’s just scuttled off into [...] Something I’ve periodically mentioned to various people over the years is that when it comes to data protection, simplicity is King. This can be best summed up with the following rule to follow when designing a backup system: If you can’t summarise your backup solution on the back of a napkin, it’s too complicated. Now, the [...] You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it wouldn’t be necessary to explicitly spell out any recovery rules – but this isn’t quite the case. It’s handy to have a “must follow” list of rules for recovery as well. In their simplest form, these [...] When I first mentioned probe based backups a while ago, I suggested that they’re going to be a bit of a sleeper function – that is, I think they’re being largely ignored at the moment because people aren’t quite sure how to make use of them. My take however is that over time we’re going [...] Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as clear cut as they may think. It’s easy to quantify the simple stuff – QA or test servers/environments that literally aren’t configured within the backup environment. It’s also relatively easy to quantify the more esoteric things within [...] In the first article on the subject, What is a zero error policy?, I established the three rules that need to be followed to achieve a zero error policy, viz: All errors shall be known. As a result of various questions and discussions I’ve [...] |
 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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