New micromanual – LinuxVTL and NetWorker
Having spent the last several days of my holiday clearing lantana from my property, I needed to take a break…
Is bare metal recovery dead?
It used to be 10 years ago that you couldn’t do anything in the backup space without having an answer…
NetWorker 7.6 SP1
Introduction I was lucky enough to get to work on the beta testing programme for NetWorker 7.6 SP1. While there…
Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging
Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…
Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth
There’s a lot of talk about tracking data growth by watching SAN and NAS usage, counting allocated storage by the…
First thoughts – NetWorker 7.5 SP3 AFTD Enhancements
On the weekend it came out, being your typical backup geek, I downloaded NetWorker 7.5 SP3, installed a new virtual…
appliances vs Appliances
We all have appliances, right? Teapots and toasters and microwaves and automatic coffee machines, etc. They’re all appliances. So are…
NetWorker and CentOS
A common question I get asked by Linux customers is “Can I run my NetWorker server on CentOS?” Up until…
Basics – Specifying a default Jukebox
If you’ve got multiple jukeboxes within a NetWorker environment, but primarily work with one of them, you may find ‘nsrjb’…
What’s the point of enterprise, commercial Linux?
I’m curious as to the differences between using a commercial, supported version of Linux in the enterprise and a non-supported…