Of cascading failures and the need to test
Over at Daily WTF, there’s a new story that has two facets of relevance to any backup administrator. Titled “Bourne…
Category: Scripting
Quibbles – A better NetWorker init script would be nice…
Coming primarily from a Unix background, I’ve remained disappointed for 10+ years that NetWorker’s init script has barely changed in…
Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism
If you’re backing up Oracle with the NetWorker module/RMAN, there are an extremely large number of options you can choose…
Basics – Important mminfo fields
Most NetWorker administrators with even a passing familiarity of mminfo will be aware of the “savetime” field, which reports when…
Basics – Remote Control
I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate…
Space occupied by inactive files
So you’ve upgraded to a newer version of NetWorker and suddenly you’re getting lots of emails around savegroup completions about…
An old dog can always learn new tricks (rpcinfo)
I always make an effort to spell out that I don’t call myself an “expert” when it comes to NetWorker….
Basics – Fixing “NSR peer information” errors
If you’re using a modern NetWorker environment, the chances are that you’ll periodically notice entries such as the following in…
Basics – Commands you should know
[This is something I’ll revisit from time to time and update.] There are some commands you should always be aware…
Basics – dbgcommand
Note: Please understand I’m not suggesting you play around with this feature randomly or without good reason. You shouldn’t make…