Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker
One of the areas where administrators have been rightly able to criticise NetWorker has been the lack of reporting or…
Tag: Recovery
The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery
You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…
Recovery is NOT #3
There’s a Top 10 Reasons marketing document from EMC now explaining why you should be using NetWorker. While obviously this…
Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries
In environments with satellite offices, a common “backup” technique described in a lot of situations is what I’d generically call…
Basics – Directed Recoveries
Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…
My worst recovery ever
Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes…
Mistakes you don’t want to make
Many years ago, a company switched from ArcServe to NetWorker. They did so around the time they made their end…
Backups are not about being miserly
Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…
Recovering with scanner and uasm
There are some types of recoveries that fall into the “last ditch effort” category – everything else has been tried,…
Basics – no_striped_recover
With the introduction of the advanced file type (adv_file) device in NetWorker, changes were made to support striped recoveries. This…