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You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it wouldn’t be necessary to explicitly spell out any recovery rules – but this isn’t quite the case. It’s handy to have a “must follow” list of rules for recovery as well. In their simplest form, these [...] In the first article on the subject, What is a zero error policy?, I established the three rules that need to be followed to achieve a zero error policy, viz: All errors shall be known. As a result of various questions and discussions I’ve [...] Introduction When it comes to servers, I love virtualisation. No, not to the point where I’d want to marry virtualisation, but it is something I’m particularly keen about. I even use it at home – I’ve gone from 3 servers, one for databases, one as a fileserver, and one as an internet gateway down to one, [...] I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available and you have to rebuild your NetWorker server, then you may potentially have to scan through a lot of media to find your most recent backup. It’s all well and good having your bootstrap report emailed [...] When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any change to the schedules. That is, daily incrementals (or differentials), with weekly fulls. This isn’t necessarily the best way to make use of backup to disk, and I’ll explain in this post way. One of the [...] Having spent what seemed like much of 1999 coordinating the system administration efforts of a major Y2K project for an engineering company, I have fundamental problems with the plethora of journalists that claimed the overall limited number of Y2K issues experienced meant it was never a problem and was thus a waste of money. (I [...] |
 And #ff to @PossibilityCity @prestondeguise @simonrob451 @tbecchetti @tompetrocelli @toonzone @VisibleOps @vnagornyi
4 hours ago @iCoolen Seems to be affecting about 8 or 9 people I know at the moment. At least I know it's not just me, thankfully :-)
5 hours ago @prestondeguise OK. Just so you know, I am still online with MSN. So it might be something local to you. Good luck with that.
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