Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold
There’s long been discussion – particularly between support partners and EMC – about the rather cloak-and-dagger way that cumulative patch…
What’s missing with thin provisioning?
I’m stepping out of my normal NetWorker zone here to briefly discuss what I think is a fundamental flaw with…
7.5.2 and ADV_FILE devices
There is a bug with the way NetWorker 7.5.2 handles ADV_FILE devices in relation to disk evacuation. I.e., in a…
Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker
Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after…
Client inactivity timeout is not group timeout
One of the settings that can be made within a group is the ‘inactivity timeout’ setting. This refers to client…
ADV_FILE operational changes
As I mentioned in an earlier post, EMC have announced on their community forum that there are some major changes…
Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset
Normally you don’t want to be in this position, but sometimes you’ll strike a situation where the only possible location…
RIP Solaris
Having observed Oracle’s strategy now for a while since the acquisition of Sun, and many discussions with a quite a…
Coming ADV_FILE changes
I had been aware for a while from an NDA conversation that these changes were on the way, but of…
Basics – Skip and Forget
For quite a while I worked under the assumption that you could do the following with directives in NetWorker: <<…