As you may have noticed, I have a great deal of disrespect for “tape is dead” stories. To be blunt,…
VTLs are fast, right? There’s no physical media loads or unloads associated with tape loads and unloads, after all. That’s…
When you run a manual backup in NetWorker (e.g., via the “save” command), NetWorker will by default give you a…
There’s an old saying, “Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.” Many would say that’s an apt…
There’s a company in the United States called Other World Computing, who mainly deal with selling products for Apple’s Macintosh…
Introduced in the 7.4 series of NetWorker was an option for the client resources called “Scheduled backup”. Normally set to…
Cumulative patch cluster 7.4.4.7 of NetWorker was released on the weekend. There’s a whole raft of fixes in this. On…
A common question asked in NetWorker forums is “how do I configure a scratch pool in NetWorker?” This comes mainly…
This morning I had to replace half of a mirror in my Linux server, which being a home server, meant…
I thought that I might from now on try to do a brief comment at the start of each month…