Betting the company

Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery…

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What’s the point of enterprise, commercial Linux?

I’m curious as to the differences between using a commercial, supported version of Linux in the enterprise and a non-supported…

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The perils of an Icarus support contract

Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…

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The case of Dell and the Interdicted Disks

Covered in several places last week, including The Standalone Sysadmin, was the story about Dell updating their RAID firmware/systems on…

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Sometimes it’s not my problem

I frequently work in support – I help a plethora of companies that have NetWorker issues, and I enjoy doing…

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Do you know your end of support dates?

I’ll presume for the moment that you’re aware of your actual end of support contract period. (Though, I’ll admit a…

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Long term NetWare recovery

Are you still backing up Novell NetWare hosts? If you are, I hope you’re actively considering what you’re going to…

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Google service and accountability in The Cloud

Over at The Register, there’s a story, “Gmail users howl over Halloween Outage“. As readers may remember, I discussed in…

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Don’t resent your log files!

There was a recent discussion on the NetWorker mailing list as to whether some additional logging information that appeared in…

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