October Hits

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So with October over, we’ve got some clear winners in the blog-article popularity stakes. Driven by search engine referrals we have a return to the top of the “Basics – Fixing NSR Peer information errors“. This is something that a constant turnover of visitors to the blog.

Here’s a thought: it’s time this should be addressed in the NetWorker Management Console. That’s right, instead of having NetWorker just log these warnings/errors, it would be handy if instead there was a section of NMC devoted to “intervention required” events … let’s see, that would probably fit most in the monitoring panel, and could even be reported under logging, with a double-click on the event to lead into a dialog box/session offering to delete the offending peer information if and only if the NetWorker administrator were certain that the host wasn’t being spoofed.

If you’re wondering why you need to fix these errors, it’s simple: they cause all sorts of issues when it comes time to recovery – either directly when trying to recover data for that client back onto that client, or as part of a directed recovery.