Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup?

This is a fairly common question to see asked – does NetWorker, when a non-full backup is run, scan the…

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Why I’ll use Wolfram|Alpha just after the Sun freezes

There’s been a great deal of discussion over Wolfram|Alpha’s new search or “computational” engine over the last few months. What’s…

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Aside – International data roaming

Last week, between Thursday and Sunday, I was in New Zealand. Of course, I did the normal thing for an…

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Backups are not about being miserly

Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…

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Basics – Stopping and restarting NetWorker on Mac OS X

If you’re a NetWorker administrator, but not a Mac OS X administrator, you may be unfamiliar with the process to…

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Keep your logs

Something I mention in my book, but which is worth elaborating further upon, is the need to keep backups of…

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Leaving on a jet plane

I’m heading to Auckland for a few days for the annual IDATA kick off. While I’m gone I’ll have less…

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When should you clean your drives?

A recent discussion on the NetWorker Mailing List about configuring cleaning cartridges prompted me that it would be worthwhile to…

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Basics – mmpool

The utility mmpool is one of those lesser used utilities in NetWorker that you may not necessarily know about, nor…

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Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher

One of the policy changes made in NetWorker 7.4.4 (and which applies to 7.5.x as well) is that of client…

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