NetWorker vs Scratch pools
A common question asked in NetWorker forums is “how do I configure a scratch pool in NetWorker?” This comes mainly…
Aside – The scourge of filesystems
This morning I had to replace half of a mirror in my Linux server, which being a home server, meant…
Last month’s top story
I thought that I might from now on try to do a brief comment at the start of each month…
Aside – The decline of Microsoft
Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix…
SysAdmin appreciation day
July 31 is System Administrator Appreciation day. Since most backup administrators are either system administrators or come from system administration…
My worst recovery ever
Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes…
Aside – Is NetWorker fast enough for my needs?
Most days my blog stats shows at least one search coming into the blog along the lines of “how fast…
Aside – Evolution of Logos
Over at undrln, there’s currently a link to a comparison of the evolution of the Pepsi and Coca Cola logos….
Sub-saveset checkpointing would be good
Generally speaking I don’t have a lot of time for NetBackup, primarily due to the lack of dependency checking. That’s…
Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options
NetWorker 7.4 saw the introduction of language-neutral logs – raw logs, if you will, in the form of changing daemon.log…