Media, CapEx and OpEx
A common mistake I often see made, particularly when planning new system implementations, is to try to calculate out media…
My Personal NetWorker Wish List
This is not necessarily reflective of my customers, though several of them have expressed desire for at least one or…
Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism
If you’re backing up Oracle with the NetWorker module/RMAN, there are an extremely large number of options you can choose…
Backup is insurance
Over at The Daily WTF, there’s a story at the moment about a company that went out of business due…
Thinking green? Think tape
Many companies are now becoming increasingly aware of the importance of either achieving carbon neutrality, or at least being as…
Your datazone is only as secure as your NetWorker server
A topic I discuss in my book that’s worth touching on here is that of datazone security. Backup is one…
Cautions for running NetWorker daemons manually
(An alternate title for this entry might be, “Now that dbgcommand is available, make sure you use it”.) The command…
Considerations for client parallelism for NetWorker server
While doing a few tests for this blog on a lab server, I noticed what looked like odd behaviour –…
Caveats for using high debug levels when investigating an issue
Or, remember quantum physics. There’s a basic rule of quantum physics, that being the observer effect – the more you…
Great VMware coverage
My colleague Brian Norris has been continuing his VMware coverage over at Going Virtual. Recently he’s been doing a lot…