Picking the best backup server
I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…
Author: Preston de Guise
Offsite your bootstrap reports
I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…
Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag
NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…
9 brain habits you didn’t realise you had
My partner reads a news/blog site called undrln.com, which can often link to some really interesting bits of information. One…
Distribution plug – SME Server
Sometime in 2003 I installed my last (and possibly last ever) Linux desktop machine. Having been a fan of Linux…
The naming of backup servers
I’m a big fan of RFC-1178; thus, I’m not too keen on backup server names such as say, nsrserv, bckmast01,…
Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
Recommended reading
I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…
Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units
Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…
nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows
I started administering NetWorker servers in 1996. At the time I was working with Solstice Backup, the Sun OEM rebadged…