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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]