Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…

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Storage Tiering vs ILM

Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…

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NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

While still not appearing on the NetWorker compatibility lists, it would certainly appear from testing that NetWorker 7.6 plays a…

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NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring

One of the features most missed by NetWorker users since the introduction of NetWorker Management Console has been the consolidated…

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NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment

While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…

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SNMP is Simply Not My Problem

When I first started in system administration, I asked a colleague who was talking about SNMP what the ETLA* stood…

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Can you trust Azure?

So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…

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Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture

It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…

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Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI?

For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…

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NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux

Some time ago, I posted a blog entry titled Carry a Jukebox with you, if you’re using Linux, which referred…

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