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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 [...] Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after that they released 10.6.3.1 which was apparently only needed in a few instances, but I downloaded and applied anyway due to some irregularities I’d noticed with my OS after installing the vanilla 10.6.3. It’s recently occurred [...] Search Networking reports that Novell have finally announced the cessation of legacy installs of NetWare on physical machines ceases at the end of March 2010. It seems now that the only remaining way of getting support for NetWare is as part of a migration project to OES2. As a backup consultant, my history with NetWare is [...] In the last few days, cumulative patch clusters have been released for the following versions of NetWorker: 7.6 – Patch cluster 7.6.0.3 released. As per usual, these haven’t been released to PowerLink, but can be requested via your authorised support partner. Remember that cumulative patch clusters don’t [...] Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the decision to run with “business hours” backup support – 9 to 5, or some variant like that, Monday to Friday. This is seen as a cheaper option, and for some companies, depending on their requirements, it [...] While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling down to being too random for reliable backups. So far problems mainly seem to occur after a machine has gone to sleep and woken up multiple times – or had its network location changed multiple [...] Yesterday I experienced one of those weird NetWorker issues that is such an odd combination of factors that I felt it had to be discussed. Here’s the scenario. A customer was: Previously running NetWorker 7.4.2 on their backup server. On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems with their NetWorker 7.2.x servers. It’s time to move away from 7.2. I know, it was the last version before nsrjobd; the move to nsrjobd in 7.3, then raw daemon logs in 7.4 can both be [...] I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I think though that in the same way that “My Very Eager Mate Just Sat Up Near Pluto” works for planets, having an A-Z for backups might help to point out the most important aspects to [...] |
 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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