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 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 [...]

Top 5 Reflections

So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular posts thus far. I can’t say any of the results surprised me. Every single one of the top 5 comes from the “Basics” series.

Number 5, on that list, was Basics – Listing Files in a [...]

Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism

If you’re backing up Oracle with the NetWorker module/RMAN, there are an extremely large number of options you can choose from. RMAN, after all, is a complete backup/recovery system in and of itself, and so when you combine RMAN and NetWorker you, well, find yourself swimming in options.

One such option is the allocate channel command [...]

Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server

While doing a few tests for this blog on a lab server, I noticed what looked like odd behaviour – I had started a manual save running on the NetWorker server for local data. That backup was writing to tape, and while it was going I kicked off a group for an altogether different client.

The [...]

Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker

Parallelism in NetWorker is effectively multiplexing by another name. There are three areas where you have traditionally been able to set this:

Client parallelism – how many savesets a client can simultaneously send in a backup
Server parallelism – how many savesets a backup server will simultaneously allow to be active for the purposes of backup
Target sessions – the [...]