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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 [...] The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) This is a relatively easy problem to explain. Let’s first look at the log messages that happens. To generate this error, I started cloning some data to the [...] NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the rationale behind it – it’s not completely usable data, but that rationale is wrong. If you don’t think this is the case, all you have to do to test is start a backup, cancel it mid-way [...] Periodically someone will tell me that they don’t need to clone because they run cross-site backups. I.e., they’ll have an architecture such as the following: Sample cross site backup configuration Looking at a tape-only environment for simplicity, this configuration sees the backup media immediately off-sited by virtue of the tape library being physically located in another [...] |
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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 :-)
5 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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