Microsoft, start your copiers
For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…
Divorcing NMC from NetWorker
The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Optional storage nodes and/or dedicated storage nodes The NetWorker server…
Site outage
Today my site hosting service suffered an outage of over 12 hours. While this was the first major outage for…
7 rules for system administrators
Introduction When I entered the work force, for the first few months I trained as a MIMS consultant, but was…
Managing NetWorker from an iPad
While there’s no native NetWorker management app for the iPad (or iPod Touch/iPhone), there are some management options available for…
Error lifecycle management
In previous articles I’ve discussed the need for zero error policies. This was covered first in What is a Zero…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
Site update
A couple of weeks ago now I decided to take a break from writing on the blog due to personal…
Hiatus…?
I will be taking a hiatus from this blog, which will last at least two weeks, or perhaps longer. No…
Large group backups
A very traditional approach to configuring automated backups in NetWorker is to make use of the schedule override feature in…