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NetWorker Usage Survey – Don’t forget to vote!

 Preston de Guise  March 18, 2010

The NetWorker Usage Survey will be closing in 2 days, and time is starting to run out to participate. You…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: survey

The perils of an Icarus support contract

 Preston de Guise  March 17, 2010  2 Comments on The perils of an Icarus support contract

Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, General Technology, General thoughts, Support  Tagged: icarus, luck, RPO, RTO, SLA, Support

Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement

 Preston de Guise  March 15, 2010  2 Comments on Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement

Sometimes NetWorker may not want to cooperate when it comes to moving media in and out of drives, or around…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker  Tagged: inquire, jbconfig, sjimm, sjisn

NetWorker survey

 Preston de Guise  March 11, 2010  1 Comment on NetWorker survey

I’m interested in gathering a basic understanding of the NetWorker deployment profiles amongst people who are reading this blog. I’m…

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 Posted in: General thoughts, NetWorker  Tagged: survey

Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux

 Preston de Guise  March 11, 2010  2 Comments on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux

While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling…

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 Posted in: NetWorker, Support  Tagged: Mac OS X, NetWorker, Snow Leopard

NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do

 Preston de Guise  March 9, 2010  1 Comment on NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do

I want to start this article by saying that I’m bound by NDAs all over the place. The company that…

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 Posted in: General Technology, General thoughts  Tagged: NDA, non disclosure agreement

Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

 Preston de Guise  March 5, 2010  2 Comments on Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

Over at a website called ignore the code, there’s a fascinating and insightful piece at the moment about removing features….

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 Posted in: Architecture, Features, NetWorker  Tagged: EMC, Features, NetWorker, software development

ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

 Preston de Guise  March 3, 2010  3 Comments on ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more…

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 Posted in: Architecture, NetWorker, Policies, Scripting  Tagged: ADV_FILE, clone, nsrclone, nsrstage, stage, tape rotation

Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?

 Preston de Guise  March 2, 2010

My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, General Technology, General thoughts, Policies  Tagged: archive, Backup

Aside – Top Stories for February

 Preston de Guise  March 1, 2010

Close enough together that I have to declare them a tie, the top stories for February were: micromanual: NetWorker Power…

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 Posted in: Aside, NetWorker  Tagged: 7.5 SP2, 7.5.2, jukebox, linuxvtl, micromanual, nsradmin, VTL

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