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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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 [...]