Recording Client IDs
My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…
Category: General thoughts
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Recommended reading
I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…