Thoughts on IBM and Sun in acquisition discussions…
So the net is rife today with speculation that IBM and Sun are in close discussions on IBM buying Sun….
Ethical obligations of backup administrators
I’d hazard a guess that at least 50% to 75% of people who work in IT have formal job and…
Is your LTO media compatible with your drives?
or, not all LTO media is created equal. There’s an assumption that because LTO is a standard shared by multiple…
Quibbles – Client GUI
I’ve been working with NetWorker for 12+ years now. I’ve used servers from v4.1, and clients back to the v3.x…
What would you like to see in advanced training?
Over the years when I’ve been delivering various customised training courses, I’ve had many a customer ask “can we have…
Basics – Setting cleaning tape usage/registering a cleaning tape
A commonly asked question is “how do I register a cleaning cartridge?” If NetWorker is managing your cleaning, it’s typically…
Aside – My take on Time Machine
Introduction Being one of those freaky weird IT people who are passionate about backups*, when Apple first previewed Mac OS…
Does your backup administrator have a say in change control?
This blog post has moved, and can now be found at the Enterprise Backup Blog, here. Related posts: Going on…
Basics – Remote Control
I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate…
Space occupied by inactive files
So you’ve upgraded to a newer version of NetWorker and suddenly you’re getting lots of emails around savegroup completions about…