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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Error lifecycle management

In previous articles I’ve discussed the need for zero error policies. This was covered first in What is a Zero Error Policy?, and followed up in Zero Error Policy Management. (If you’ve not read those articles, you really should before continuing.)

Key to ensuring a zero error policy is not only adopted, but also achieved, is [...]

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 [...]

And I had thought it was some marketing stunt…

So yesterday I got an excited email from Virgin’s Velocity Rewards Program*.

It enthusiastically read:

Preston, surprise! You’ve turned gold!

This was news to me. I looked at my skin and indeed, I was my normal complexion – I had not suddenly morphed into a victim in a bad James Bond movie.

Reading on, I found out:

We’ve got a [...]