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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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ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

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 [...]

March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Architecture, NetWorker, Policies, Scripting | One comment

Basics - Need a different volume from pool ...

The scenario:

A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed)
It has been restarted
It hangs waiting for a new volume even though there’s a partially written volume available.

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 [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Basics, NetWorker | 2 comments

The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 read articles on The NetWorker Blog for 2009. The top 3 of course match the three articles that routinely turn out to be the most popular on any given month, which speaks something of [...]

January 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Architecture, Basics, NetWorker, Quibbles, Site, Support | Leave a comment

Manually Staging? Don't forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify both the SSID and the Clone ID when they stage. I did some initial coverage of this when I first started the blog, but I wanted to revisit and demonstrate exactly why this is necessary.

The [...]

November 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Basics, NetWorker, Scripting | 5 comments

Quibbles – Cloning and Staging

For the most part cloning and staging within NetWorker are pretty satisfactory, particularly when viewed from a combination of automated and manual operations. However, one thing that constantly drives me nuts is the inane reporting of status for cloning and staging.

Honestly, how hard can it be to design cloning and staging to accurately report the following [...]

August 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Quibbles | Leave a comment