Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU

One thing would be the way “Firewall” configurations are setup (or not). The mere fact that the Admin GUI has a “Firewall” area misleads folks into thinking that is where it needs to be configured for clients which is NOT the case. It might be good to point out what the Firewall IS for as well as what it is NOT for then have a discussion of what IS used if one is doing firewall setups.

While on the surface it seems reasonable to say look at the manuals/pdfs it seems that someone that went to the effort of buying and reading a 3^rd party book probably has already done that so. Therefore the admonishment would be unnecessary.

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of bobbyrjw AT comcast DOT net
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:39 AM
To: Curtis Preston; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Top 20 (or so) misunderstood things about NBU

1. People don't spend time reading the manuals. They think they can just click their way to protection.

2. Storage unit groups are not understood. I love them. I use them. They can really improve the throughput and the redundancy of a backup system.

3. Management thinks that anyone can run NBU because all they have to do is click around.

4. Admins don't spend time learning the command line commands. The commands are not exhaustively documented, however there are a lot of folks that don't even bother cracking the PDF's.

Bobby

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From: "Curtis Preston" <cpreston AT glasshouse DOT com>

> Hey there, folks! I'm working very hard on my next book, which will
> have some product-specific information in it. I'm covering multiple
> products, so I won't go TOO deep on individual products, but I'd like to
> do my best to cover misunderstood or frequently asked topics for each
> major product. I figured that no one would know better than this list
> which topics people tend to get confused.
>
> What topics do you think should go on that list? (I've got my personal
> preferences, but I don't want to prejudice your thoughts.) What are the
> top 5/20/30 things about NBU that you think people get wrong?
>
> TIA
>
> ---
> W. Curtis Preston
> Backup Blog @ www.backupc! entral. com
> VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies
>
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