5 more considerations for deduplication
Recently I wrote, “7 common problems with deduplication“. That covered some of the practicalities that you need to be aware…
Category: NetWorker
NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results
With apologies for the delays, I’m pleased to announce that the report following the NetWorker Usage Survey in June/July 2011…
Basics – Jobkill goes interactive
In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…
7 common problems with deduplication
In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…
Auditing should be done only by the experts
I’ve said it before – auditing should only be done by the experts. I first realised this when a security…
The risk of change
Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…
You’re not the boss of me
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011
It’s that semi-annual time of the year again when I ask you to take a few minutes to answer some…
Melbourne NetWorker User?
Is your company based in Melbourne (or Victoria, generally), and make use of NetWorker? Do you need a backup healthcheck…
Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape?
So you’ve got a pending message sitting there in NMC, NetWorker logs and nsrwatch: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to…