Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules
In the dim dark days of NetWorker (e.g., v4 and v5), I used to have periodic cron jobs that would…
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Quibbles – Directive Management
I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s…
Book some time with the book
There is much more to backup than feeds and speeds, how-to guides for specific products, technical analysis of individual product…
Most popular in August
The most visited post in August was again, Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux). I think part…
NetWorker and Snow Leopard
I was rather pleased this morning to have a friendly FedEx courier drop off Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow…
Zero Error Policy Management
This article has now moved to Enterprise Systems Backup, and can be read here. Related posts: What is a zero…
What does supported mean?
It’s easy to get confused on ‘supported’. That is, when EMC (or any other vendor) publishes a guide on say,…
Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks
Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
Basics – Updates vs Upgrades
After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…
NetWorker 7.4.5 – Should you update?
Over the last 36 hours or so I’ve been doing a lot of tests of NetWorker 7.4.5, and overall I…