Why does this blog exist?
"It's NetBackup, not 'NetRestore'"-- intended joke from Symantec NetBackup support person on the phoneWhy does this blog exist?Well basically our group bought a SAN solution which lead to us combining...
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Backing up data - it's not "rocket surgery"!What's tape backups purpose one might ask. Well, backing up is only half the task - all the purpose is in being able to restore data. Without restoring data...
View ArticleWhy does NetBackup Suck?
Our implementation was done around April of 2008. It consists of roughly 16 servers, two NDMP (read EMC SAN storage systems) and a handful of MS SQL backup jobs.Things ran OK for a while, and while...
View ArticleLicensing
It's been a while since the last post. I've put in at least 8 hours dealing with problems and snafu's in the last two weeks. That's not counting the routine things one expects with a backup solution,...
View ArticleA Good Example
Ha, this is classic. Today, June 3rd, some management guy calls me about the low marks I gave one of the support techs back 3 months ago!So three months after taking a few moments of my time to respond...
View ArticleWe've moved...
Ha ha, we are still in the same location but as far as backup software goes We have moved on. We settled on Tivoli Storage Manager 6.1I should have posted this information a couple of months ago but...
View ArticleFinal Post
Hey, it is now late 2012 and I just want to report that the same tape unit is backing up all the same servers (DB, Exchange, UNIX and Windows file systems) using Tivoli Storage Manager.Things have been...
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