Fiji

Fiji has yet again slipped into another military dictatorship. It’s a crying shame that such a beautiful country continues to…

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Aside – the three rules of good coffee

I’ll admit, I’m not a barista. Needless to say working in IT and coming from Australia I have a healthy…

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NetWorker 7.5.1, Software Repository and Solaris x86/Solaris AMD

I currently have an open case with EMC about this, and I’m pushing to get these packages fixed and updated.…

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Basics – jbverify

Now, some might say that I’m not the smartest card in the deck for what I’m about to note, but…

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Basics – no_striped_recover

With the introduction of the advanced file type (adv_file) device in NetWorker, changes were made to support striped recoveries. This…

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Zeroth tier: the backup director

(OK, I just made that term up, there is within the NetWorker framework, no reference ever to a “zeroth” tier.…

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SciFi without Asimov’s laws of robotics

I consider myself fundamentally opposed to Asimov’s laws of robotics, for two entirely different reasons. The first, and the most…

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NetWorker 7.5.1 Released

NetWorker 7.5.1 oops sorry, SP1 has been released. Previously we’ve seen scenarios where documentation has been updated on PowerLink for…

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Expecting a more complete backup

As I point out in my book, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up in datacentres completely unprotected. That…

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EMC helping out Quantum

For a long time I was not a fan of Quantum. As a system administrator in the early to mid…

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