micromanual for nsradmin

Join hundreds of others and download the NetWorker Power User's micromanual for nsradmin. Check this blog article for details.

Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery

If you have an interest in, or work in data protection/backup and recovery environments, you should check out my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy. Designed for system administrators and managers alike, it focuses on features, policies, procedures and the human element to ensuring that your company has a suitable and working backup system.

 

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

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 [...]

Introducing the Support and Services page

Regular visitors may note that there’s a new addition to the pages on this blog – one covering Support and Services.

I run this blog in my own time (probably using up a little too much of my own time to be quite truthful) and ask for no payment or reimbursement from my readers – well, [...]

Are you Monitoring RAP?

Introduced in NetWorker v7 was a feature called “Monitor RAP”. There’s two unfortunate aspects to this setting in the NetWorker server resource (“NSR”):

It is not enabled by default;
The setting name obfuscates the purpose of the setting for most users.

Personally, I would have preferred when this option was made available that it was called “Audit Changes”, [...]

Audit is not a 4-letter word

As a system administrator, I loathed being audited. Not because I feared that it would expose holes in the security or policies of my systems, but rather because for the most part, auditing was usually conducted by incompetant staff at big name auditing/taxation companies. Now, I have no doubt that when it comes to their [...]