I used the preceding lists and personal experience to create a (partial) list of tasks performed by
system administrators. I tried to categorize the tasks and ended up with the following sections: scarce-resource management, human interface, standard administration, disaster prevention, hardware, and software.
Months earlier, one of the organization's
system administrators (we'll call him Alex) had come to Dave with a complaint.
enabling the
system administrator to store and recall fiber-optic connectivity information; and
AIN large companies, the '
System Administrator' is the person responsible for looking after the computer system.
Traditionally, backup has been one of the chores relegated to the junior
system administrator. Most companies religiously back up to tape or tape libraries--a full backup once a week and incremental backups every day.
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System Administrator ships from 9380 Computer Systems(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
All installations of the Versant VDS object database and Versant enJin that are actively managed by a
system administrator are prospective customers for VMC.
This is the promise, the Holy Grail, the Nirvana of every
System Administrator, Database Administrator and CIO.
In case of a catastrophic failure at the primary site, the
system administrator must be able to quickly redirect application servers to access data from replicas located in the backup data center.