Basics – Setting cleaning tape usage/registering a cleaning tape

A commonly asked question is “how do I register a cleaning cartridge?” If NetWorker is managing your cleaning, it’s typically…

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Aside – My take on Time Machine

Introduction Being one of those freaky weird IT people who are passionate about backups*, when Apple first previewed Mac OS…

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Does your backup administrator have a say in change control?

This blog post has moved, and can now be found at the Enterprise Backup Blog, here. Related posts: Going on…

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Basics – Remote Control

I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate…

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Space occupied by inactive files

So you’ve upgraded to a newer version of NetWorker and suddenly you’re getting lots of emails around savegroup completions about…

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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.…

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Basics – Commands you should know Part 2

Continuing the Commands you should know topic, here’s a single variant of nsrjb that you really, really should know. Introduced…

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Is your backup server fast enough?

Is your backup server a modern, state of the art machine with high speed disk, significant IO throughput capabilities and…

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Index backups for recovery

We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able…

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Recording Client IDs

My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…

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