NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs

Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, Siobhán Ellis pointed…

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Why you should love timesheets

This is no time to talk about time. We don’t have the time! (Star Trek: First Contact) Are you one…

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Why /nsr/tmp is wrong

On both Windows and Unix platforms, NetWorker maintains a “tmp” directory within nsr. This directory contains a variety of information,…

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Google service and accountability in The Cloud

Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…

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The fall and decline of Microsoft

Great article over at Newsweek about the Lost Decade of Microsoft. I’m fully aware that Dan Lyons is Fake Steve,…

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October Hits

(We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog article with a reminder that Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy…

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Please, No!

So now the folks at the interoperability labs at Microsoft want to open up the Outlook PST format so that…

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Dedupe: Leading Edge or Bleeding Edge?

If you think you can’t go a day without hearing something about dedupe, you’re probably right. Whether it’s every vendor…

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Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets?

NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…

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Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle

Within NetWorker, data (savesets) can go through several stages in its lifecycle. Here’s a simple overview of those stages: The…

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