Long term NetWare recovery

Are you still backing up Novell NetWare hosts? If you are, I hope you’re actively considering what you’re going to…

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Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker

One of the areas where administrators have been rightly able to criticise NetWorker has been the lack of reporting or…

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November’s top article

November saw the article, “Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)” remain the top read story for another…

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EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup

With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…

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Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…

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NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)

While still not appearing on the NetWorker compatibility lists, it would certainly appear from testing that NetWorker 7.6 plays a…

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NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring

One of the features most missed by NetWorker users since the introduction of NetWorker Management Console has been the consolidated…

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NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment

While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…

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SNMP is Simply Not My Problem

When I first started in system administration, I asked a colleague who was talking about SNMP what the ETLA* stood…

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