About ja290

ja290 · 10-30-2008

My current master server is Tru64, which is going away. That leave me with the question of what platform to use for my new master server. We have a modest environment, about 80 clients of various platforms, 3 full media servers, about a dozen SAN med...

ja290 · 10-27-2009

I have "hot catalog backups" on my to-do list. Can a hot backup be written to some place on disk? I do that currently with my cold backups and rsync the files elsewhere.

ja290 · 08-13-2009

What I do on my UNIX master server is: Run a full catalog backup to diskDown a tape drive and load a tape into that driveUse OS utilities to back up all the file systems to that tape Then, if I have to recover, all I need is a bootable OS CD and the ...

ja290 · 04-30-2009

I wrote the following shell script a while back mostly as something to exercise a tape library. It implements, physically, a simple sort, so it's not going to be fast. But if you have time... It uses my OS's mcutil utility to command the tape librar...

ja290 · 04-30-2009

It's been my experience that Linux is much easier to recover, especially on un-like hardware, than Windows. If your master server is the linchpin of your disaster recovery, you may want to take this into account.

ja290 · 03-23-2009

> It seems to me that if you could not afford to update the servers then you probably cannot afford to buy Netbackup for your backup solution. The costs associated with upgrading a server can be highly variable, and can escalate rapidly if there are...

VOX

User Statistics

User Activity

New master server platform

I have "hot catalog backups"

What I do on my UNIX master

shell script to sort a library

Consider DR

There are costs, then there are costs