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I have, on a few occasions, been puzzled as to how to downgrade NetWorker on Mac OS X. There’s a couple of distinct issues that I’ve come up against, and I thought I’d outline them here now that I’ve fully resolved how to do it. The first is that when NetWorker installs, it’s meant to install [...] Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after that they released 10.6.3.1 which was apparently only needed in a few instances, but I downloaded and applied anyway due to some irregularities I’d noticed with my OS after installing the vanilla 10.6.3. It’s recently occurred [...] While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling down to being too random for reliable backups. So far problems mainly seem to occur after a machine has gone to sleep and woken up multiple times – or had its network location changed multiple [...] While still not appearing on the NetWorker compatibility lists, it would certainly appear from testing that NetWorker 7.6 plays a whole lot nicer with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) better than its predecessors did. Previously when Snow Leopard came out, I posted that NetWorker 7.5 was able to work with it, but did qualify that [...] I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for the Mac for several years now – in fact, when I originally started using it, VMware were only talking about doing a desktop virtualisation product for the Mac. That’s partly why I stay loyal to Parallels – they supported the platform sooner. The other reason is that after years of [...] When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it – and for desktop users and administrators of fixed-location servers, that should remain the case. For laptop users though, it’s turning out to be slightly different story. My ongoing experience now is that if I switch locations [...] I was rather pleased this morning to have a friendly FedEx courier drop off Mac OS X 10.6 – Snow Leopard. Of course, my first thought was “will this work with NetWorker?” I’m pleased to report – yes, yes it does. All of the following worked for me using NetWorker 7.5.1: Recoveries from prior to the upgrade For some time I’ve wished NetWorker would support both storage node and server functions on Mac OS X. When I had a PPC 17″ PowerBook, this mostly came from the glacially slow performance of running Linux within VirtualPC so as to run up a NetWorker server for testing. (Windows-within-Virtual PC was a dead-loss: the then-current [...] If you’re a NetWorker administrator, but not a Mac OS X administrator, you may be unfamiliar with the process to stop and restart NetWorker on that platform. It’s actually easy, but for someone who hasn’t come from a Mac OS X command-line background, it’s not something you’d immediately expect. To stop and restart NetWorker, all you [...] Introduction Being one of those freaky weird IT people who are passionate about backups*, when Apple first previewed Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard), the number one thing I of course got excited about was Time Machine. Now, before anyone tells me that it’s “just a poor rip-off of VSS”, let me be blunt – analysts [...] |
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4 hours ago @iCoolen Seems to be affecting about 8 or 9 people I know at the moment. At least I know it's not just me, thankfully :-)
5 hours ago @prestondeguise OK. Just so you know, I am still online with MSN. So it might be something local to you. Good luck with that.
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