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…
Tag: Support
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…