micromanual for nsradmin

Join hundreds of others and download the NetWorker Power User's micromanual for nsradmin. Check this blog article for details.

Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery

If you have an interest in, or work in data protection/backup and recovery environments, you should check out my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance Policy. Designed for system administrators and managers alike, it focuses on features, policies, procedures and the human element to ensuring that your company has a suitable and working backup system.

 

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Using NetWorker for Live Search

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media files (e.g., *.mp3) from a fileserver, but still wanted to know when those files were present. In this case, the backup administrator didn’t have administrative rights to the fileserver, so doing a straight search of [...]

Basics – Remote Control

I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate a jukebox on a storage node. (Previously it had required that actual nsrjb commands, when run from the command line, be run from the owner of the jukebox.)

While you don’t need it any more to [...]

An old dog can always learn new tricks (rpcinfo)

I always make an effort to spell out that I don’t call myself an “expert” when it comes to NetWorker. Every time I did that when I was “growing up” with the product, I’d subsequently make an arse* of myself.

So these days I just put “expert” on CVs and resumés for HR people, but consider [...]

Basics – Fixing "NSR peer information" errors

If you’re using a modern NetWorker environment, the chances are that you’ll periodically notice entries such as the following in the daemon.log / daemon.raw files on the backup server:

39078 02/02/2009 09:45:13 PM  0 0 2 1152952640 5095 0 nox nsrexecd SYSTEM error: There is already a machine using the name: “faero”. Either choose a different [...]