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