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…
Category: Policies
Meet your library
For larger sites in particular, we frequently end up in situations where backup or system administrators are sufficiently remote from…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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: Things…
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…
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…