Timeout – Victorian Bush Fire Relief
For the past week, Victorians have been battling the deadliest bushfire conditions in recorded history in Australia. The death toll…
Basics – dbgcommand
Note: Please understand I’m not suggesting you play around with this feature randomly or without good reason. You shouldn’t make…
Picking the best backup server
I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…
Offsite your bootstrap reports
I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…
Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag
NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…
9 brain habits you didn’t realise you had
My partner reads a news/blog site called undrln.com, which can often link to some really interesting bits of information. One…
Distribution plug – SME Server
Sometime in 2003 I installed my last (and possibly last ever) Linux desktop machine. Having been a fan of Linux…
The naming of backup servers
I’m a big fan of RFC-1178; thus, I’m not too keen on backup server names such as say, nsrserv, bckmast01,…
Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
Recommended reading
I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…