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