Manual backups and the ‘quiet’ option

When you run a manual backup in NetWorker (e.g., via the “save” command), NetWorker will by default give you a…

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Using the NetWorker Software Distribution Functionality

There’s an old saying, “Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.” Many would say that’s an apt…

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Aside – Other World Computing

There’s a company in the United States called Other World Computing, who mainly deal with selling products for Apple’s Macintosh…

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Wish list – Extension to “scheduled backup”

Introduced in the 7.4 series of NetWorker was an option for the client resources called “Scheduled backup”. Normally set to…

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NetWorker 7.4.4.7 is out

Cumulative patch cluster 7.4.4.7 of NetWorker was released on the weekend. There’s a whole raft of fixes in this. On…

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NetWorker vs Scratch pools

A common question asked in NetWorker forums is “how do I configure a scratch pool in NetWorker?” This comes mainly…

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Aside – The scourge of filesystems

This morning I had to replace half of a mirror in my Linux server, which being a home server, meant…

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Last month’s top story

I thought that I might from now on try to do a brief comment at the start of each month…

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Aside – The decline of Microsoft

Being a Mac user, a lot of people expect me to loathe everything Microsoft. Also, having come from a Unix…

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SysAdmin appreciation day

July 31 is System Administrator Appreciation day. Since most backup administrators are either system administrators or come from system administration…

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