Barcode categories create issues

Some sites get quite particular about their volume barcodes when it comes to physical media. This means you’ll see barcodes…

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NetWorker Survey Results

The first NetWorker Usage Survey for the NetWorker Information Hub ran between March 11 2010 and March 20 2010. During…

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Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

Over at a website called ignore the code, there’s a fascinating and insightful piece at the moment about removing features.…

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ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more…

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Of Unicorns and Horses

Is your backup system a unicorn, or is it a horse? If you’re thinking I’m off my rocker asking such…

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What should your toolkit look like?

There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. In order to…

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Killing me softly? I never liked the song either.

Over at The Backup Blog, Scott Waterhouse offers an alternate perspective on why the announcement by IBM of an in-lab…

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IBM and the case of the crazy-dense tape

According to a press release, IBM have come up with a tape format which is so dense that it’ll fit…

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Direct to Tape is Dead, Long Live Tape

Any regular reader knows that I don’t for a minute believe that tape is dead. However, it is time to…

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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment. If you’re…

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