I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…
I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…
NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…
My partner reads a news/blog site called undrln.com, which can often link to some really interesting bits of information. One…
Sometime in 2003 I installed my last (and possibly last ever) Linux desktop machine. Having been a fan of Linux…
I’m a big fan of RFC-1178; thus, I’m not too keen on backup server names such as say, nsrserv, bckmast01,…
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…
Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…
I started administering NetWorker servers in 1996. At the time I was working with Solstice Backup, the Sun OEM rebadged…