Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…
Over the last 36 hours or so I’ve been doing a lot of tests of NetWorker 7.4.5, and overall I…
There is, in my opinion, an unpleasant security hole in the NMC installation/configuration process. The security hole is simple: it…
I received an automated alert from PowerLink overnight telling me that the release notes for NetWorker 7.4 had been updated.…
For some time I’ve wished NetWorker would support both storage node and server functions on Mac OS X. When I…
For the most part cloning and staging within NetWorker are pretty satisfactory, particularly when viewed from a combination of automated…
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As you may have noticed, I have a great deal of disrespect for “tape is dead” stories. To be blunt,…
VTLs are fast, right? There’s no physical media loads or unloads associated with tape loads and unloads, after all. That’s…