Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks

Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…

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What’s wrong with the NMC installation process?

There is, in my opinion, an unpleasant security hole in the NMC installation/configuration process. The security hole is simple: it…

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Using SELinux with NetWorker

I’m not all that conversant with SELinux, and for the most part, disable it on systems that I configure simply…

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The Dual Evils – Malware, and Malware Protection

I worry that I may in this entry come across as a smug Mac user, but that’s not my intent,…

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Are you Monitoring RAP?

Introduced in NetWorker v7 was a feature called “Monitor RAP”. There’s two unfortunate aspects to this setting in the NetWorker…

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Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server

A topic I discuss in my book that’s worth touching on here is that of datazone security. Backup is one…

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(In)securing your daemon.raw with nsr_render_log -z

As you may know, the jump from NetWorker 7.3 to 7.4 saw the introduction of a language/locale-neutral log format in…

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