{"id":1703,"date":"2010-02-16T05:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2010-02-16T05:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:01:36","slug":"what-should-your-toolkit-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/what-should-your-toolkit-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What should your toolkit look like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. In order to get the most out of it, you should have a toolkit of utilities and applications that are there, at your beck and call, to help you get the most out of your backup <em>system<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you&#8217;re on Windows, Linux or Unix. Like Batman&#8217;s utility belt, having some tools will help you go beyond \u00a0a standard NetWorker install.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ll do is outline what <em>my<\/em> NetWorker utility belt would look like, and then let others comment on what they&#8217;d declare as the essentials for themselves. Here&#8217;s what I advocate as &#8220;must haves&#8221; when installing NetWorker:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An advanced scripting language \u2013 in my case, Perl.<\/li>\n<li>SMTP mail (outgoing) from the backup server.<\/li>\n<li>SSH (outgoing) from the backup server. (On Windows, this implies use of a bare <a title=\"Cygwin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cygwin<\/a> install, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Turbocharged Administration with IDATA Tools\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/02\/05\/turbocharged-administration-with-idata-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDATA<\/a> <a title=\"New version of iDATA Tools\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/new-version-of-idata-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tools<\/a> \u2013 I kid you not, I&#8217;m saying it just &#8220;for sales&#8221;, I&#8217;ve been working on these tools for years and they&#8217;re such second nature for certain operations that unless I&#8217;m running up a lab server for only a single test, it even gets installed on all my test systems too.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;tail&#8221; command; whether it&#8217;s installed by default on Unix, or added as a single command on Windows or added as part of a <a title=\"Cygwin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cygwin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cygwin<\/a> install on Windows, I can&#8217;t go without tail.<\/li>\n<li>A web browser \u2013 I know that sounds like a given, but on headless enterprise Unix systems, that means ensuring that at least <em><a title=\"elinks\" href=\"http:\/\/elinks.or.cz\/\" target=\"_blank\">elinks<\/a><\/em> is installed on the NetWorker server itself.<\/li>\n<li>A tool for viewing potentially large log files. My tool of choice is usually <em>vi, <\/em>but I&#8217;m a <a title=\"Maybe I'm just an old Unix hack...\" href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/12\/13\/maybe-im-just-an-old-unix-hack\/\" target=\"_blank\">grouchy old Unix user<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, they&#8217;re my &#8220;absolutes&#8221; \u2013 or to be more correct, they&#8217;re the tools I&#8217;ll either (a) want to automatically install or (b) automatically miss if they&#8217;re not installed when I step up to a NetWorker server.<\/p>\n<p>Does this somehow detract from NetWorker? Of course not. Most of those, as you&#8217;ll see, are about useful situations <em>around<\/em> the backup product rather than direct modification of it. I.e., they&#8217;re about system process tools. Those that are to do about scripting should be welcomed \u2013 I&#8217;d take any backup framework product over any monolithic backup product any day!<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s in your utility belt? Or what do you wish was in your utility belt for NetWorker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. 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