Screen shots don’t constitute logs

You might term this an appeal from every person who does support. If you’re dealing with a support service with…

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Basics – nsrlic

One question that commonly comes up is “how do I get details of used licenses?” The easiest way I find…

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Meet your library

For larger sites in particular, we frequently end up in situations where backup or system administrators are sufficiently remote from…

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Aside – Keyboards

As a high speed touch typist, I have more than a strong regard for good keyboards. As someone who has…

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7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file

Yesterday I wanted to delete a few savesets from a lab server I’d upgraded from 7.4.4 to 7.5.1. Wanting to…

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Ready for {reading|writing}, idle

Sometimes NetWorker adminsitrators find themselves gnashing their teeth over the following device/media status messages: ready for reading, idle or ready…

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Why interfaces must be beautiful as well as functional

It’s been a long time since I’ve read such a thoughtful and simple argument for beautiful interface design, rather than…

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Recovering with scanner and uasm

There are some types of recoveries that fall into the “last ditch effort” category – everything else has been tried,…

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Basics – nsraddadmin

A simple and straight-forward command, nsraddadmin answers that problem of needing to quickly add a user account as a NetWorker…

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Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios

Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the…

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