Should you use NAS for disk backup?
Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…
Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs
I’ve recently discovered a site with a prosaic name of “DailyWTF” … obviously aimed at technical people, it frequently covers…
Basics – Important mminfo fields
Most NetWorker administrators with even a passing familiarity of mminfo will be aware of the “savetime” field, which reports when…
Using yum to install NetWorker on Linux
If you’re using CentOS, or another RedHat style Linux that happens to include the yum package manager, installing NetWorker on…
Impact of high speed tape on backup
Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…
Finding files in your indices
Everyone has had that horror recovery scenario, where a user wants a file recovered, but they can’t tell you where…
Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs
OK, there’s not a lot about NetWorker that drives me nuts. I think I’ve done only one other “Quibbles” topic…
Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup?
This is a fairly common question to see asked – does NetWorker, when a non-full backup is run, scan the…
Why I’ll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes
There’s been a great deal of discussion over Wolfram|Alpha’s new search or “computational” engine over the last few months. What’s…
Aside – International data roaming
Last week, between Thursday and Sunday, I was in New Zealand. Of course, I did the normal thing for an…