Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks
Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
Category: Security
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
(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…