Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability – 2nd Edition
Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on a project that’s very dear to me: creating an updated…
Category: Policies
Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…
The House That No-One Built
And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…
Arranging by policy
A week before easter, I was doing some Powerplate exercises, nothing I hadn’t done hundreds of times before, when stepping…
Would you buy a dangerbase?
Databases. They’re expensive, aren’t they? What if I sold you a Dangerbase instead? What’s a dangerbase!? I’m glad you asked. A dangerbase…
NetWorker 9: The future of backup
Introduction When NetWorker 8 was released I said at the time it represented the biggest consolidated set of changes to NetWorker…
The lazy admin
Are you an industriously busy backup administrator, or are you lazy? When I started in IT in 1996, it wasn’t…
What is a backup system?
One of the core concepts I try to drive home in my book is that you don’t get a backup…
Deleting with Reckless Abaddon
This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…
What a day!
This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service…