This is wrong
In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…
Author: Preston de Guise
Technology is not the solution
Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…
Adherents to the Repeated Meme
How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…
Managing tape backup media lifecycles
Within backup there are typically two tape rotation policies. One policy applies to short term backups, and the other to…
Melbourne NetWorker User?
Is your company based in Melbourne (or Victoria, generally), and make use of NetWorker? Do you need a backup healthcheck…
Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape?
So you’ve got a pending message sitting there in NMC, NetWorker logs and nsrwatch: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to…
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
Tuesday May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia, otherwise known as IDAHO. I am proud of my…
nsrwatch gets an update
Having used NetWorker since 1996, it’s fair to say that while I’ve watched a lot of features and interfaces in…
Basics – NetWorker Server Client ID
When reviewing a customer’s logs today, I noticed yet another one of those minor (but great) changes that periodically get…
There is no such thing as a backup failure
The backup world is, to use a quaint colloquialism, “arse about face“. So much of the talk in the backup…