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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]