Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher

One of the policy changes made in NetWorker 7.4.4 (and which applies to 7.5.x as well) is that of client…

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Meet your library

For larger sites in particular, we frequently end up in situations where backup or system administrators are sufficiently remote from…

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Zeroth tier: the backup director

(OK, I just made that term up, there is within the NetWorker framework, no reference ever to a “zeroth” tier.…

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Expecting a more complete backup

As I point out in my book, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up in datacentres completely unprotected. That…

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Does your backup administrator have a say in change control?

This blog post has moved, and can now be found at the Enterprise Backup Blog, here. Related posts: Going on…

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Is your backup server fast enough?

Is your backup server a modern, state of the art machine with high speed disk, significant IO throughput capabilities and…

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Tape libraries and the hidden speeds

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list that was sparked by someone asking what sort of LTO-4…

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Audit is not a 4-letter word

This post has now been moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog. You can find it here. Related posts: NetWorker…

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Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes

Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…

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Offsite your bootstrap reports

I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…

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