My worst recovery ever

Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes…

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Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs?

Most days my blog stats shows at least one search coming into the blog along the lines of “how fast…

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Aside – Evolution of Logos

Over at undrln, there’s currently a link to a comparison of the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca Cola logos.…

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Sub-saveset checkpointing would be good

Generally speaking I don’t have a lot of time for NetBackup, primarily due to the lack of dependency checking. That’s…

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Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options

NetWorker 7.4 saw the introduction of language-neutral logs – raw logs, if you will, in the form of changing daemon.log…

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NetWorker Single Server Edition

Truth be told, I don’t have any real involvement in EBS (Enterprise Backup Software) these days. If you’re unaware of…

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Aside – How much is a Petabyte?

OK, so this has been linked to a … bazillion … times by various storage-type bloggers over the last week.…

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Mistakes you don’t want to make

Many years ago, a company switched from ArcServe to NetWorker. They did so around the time they made their end…

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Using SELinux with NetWorker

I’m not all that conversant with SELinux, and for the most part, disable it on systems that I configure simply…

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Of cascading failures and the need to test

Over at Daily WTF, there’s a new story that has two facets of relevance to any backup administrator. Titled “Bourne…

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