Recording Client IDs

My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes

Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…

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Quibbles – I know I’m depositing tapes, dummy!

I know this is a minor quibble – and for the most part, minor quibbles sum up the issues that…

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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…

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Distribution plug – SME Server

Sometime in 2003 I installed my last (and possibly last ever) Linux desktop machine. Having been a fan of Linux…

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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,…

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Recommended reading

I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…

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