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…
Category: NetWorker
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…