Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture

It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…

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Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI?

For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…

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NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux

Some time ago, I posted a blog entry titled Carry a Jukebox with you, if you’re using Linux, which referred…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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Merits of target based deduplication

It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…

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Lessons I’ve recently learned…

When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…

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The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery

You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…

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Wait! Don’t apply that service pack!

Recently we’re seeing a lot of people upgrading to Windows 2008 SP2, without first checking to see that release notes…

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NetWorker on Linux – Ditching ext3 for xfs

Recently when I made an exasperated posting about lengthy ext3 check times and looking forward to btrfs, Siobhán Ellis pointed…

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Why /nsr/tmp is wrong

On both Windows and Unix platforms, NetWorker maintains a “tmp” directory within nsr. This directory contains a variety of information,…

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