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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Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk

In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current expected jukebox state based on the operations that have happened since it was last fully queried. This avoids having to do (time) costly SCSI probes before every operation.

(This, for what it’s worth, is why you [...]

Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting

Here’s a common scenario – you want to label a volume, or relabel a volume, and use it straight away. The default behaviour of NetWorker after labelling or relabelling a volume is to then unmount it, which means having to then manually mount the volume after it has been (unnecessarily) ejected.

Getting around this behaviour is [...]

Debugging autochanger operations

Having a strong support background, and having a preference for working in software rather than hardware, when I use NetWorker’s nsrjb utility with tape libraries I like to get as much feedback as possible on operations.

When performing command line operations with nsrjb, this is relatively straight forward – just add on a few “-v” options [...]