Is your backup server fast enough?
Is your backup server a modern, state of the art machine with high speed disk, significant IO throughput capabilities and…
Author: Preston de Guise
Index backups for recovery
We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able…
Recording Client IDs
My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…
Tape libraries and the hidden speeds
There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list that was sparked by someone asking what sort of LTO-4…
Traps when upgrading from 7.3.x to 7.4.x – CDI
I’ve had a few customers in the last few days now upgrade from NetWorker 7.3.x to 7.4.x, and the most…
Basics – Fixing “NSR peer information” errors
If you’re using a modern NetWorker environment, the chances are that you’ll periodically notice entries such as the following in…
Recommended reading: Asimov’s 3 laws unsafe
Totally off topic, if you’re interested in AI at all, you may want to check out 3 Laws Unsafe, a…
Yet another “tape is dead” story. Ho-hum.
I’ve previously been amused by stories claiming that tape is dead due to disk backup or VTL being able to…
Aside – How I stay organised
(Or, information is like water – you can drink from it, you can swim in it, or you can drown…
Audit is not a 4-letter word
This post has now been moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog. You can find it here. Related posts: Things…