micromanual for nsradmin

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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 pros and cons of Legato License Manager

Bundled with NetWorker for some time now has been the peripheral product, Legato License Manager (LLM). (Now normally just referred to as “License Manager”.)

If you’ve never used LLM, you may wonder what use it serves. But to do that, we first need to look at the control zone, that region of space that encompasses one [...]

Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture

It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair to say that no product can be all things to all people.

Security has had a somewhat interesting past in NetWorker; much of the attention to security for a lot of the time has been to [...]

Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server

A topic I discuss in my book that’s worth touching on here is that of datazone security.

Backup is one of those enterprise components that touches on a vast amount of infrastructure; so much so that it’s usually one of those most broadest reaching pieces of software within an environment. As such, the temptation is always [...]

Zeroth tier: the backup director

(OK, I just made that term up, there is within the NetWorker framework, no reference ever to a “zeroth” tier. That doesn’t preclude me from using the term though.)

The classic 3-tier architecture of NetWorker is:

Backup Server
1 or more storage nodes (1 of which is the backup server)
Clients

In a standard environment, as it grows, you typically [...]