Oracle and PowerProtect Data Manager

I recently wanted to check out some PowerProtect Data Manager options with Oracle, and so I found myself spinning up…

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NetWorker Basics – Policy Tree and Status

The nsrpolicy tool is remarkably powerful, allowing you to create edit and view policy details rapidly from the command line…

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NetWorker Basics – Rolling your own Savesets

Did you know that NetWorker lets you ‘roll your own’ savesets? This functionality gives you a great deal of flexibility in customising your backup configuration to make critical datasets readily identifiable. Here’s how.

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NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates

If you’re doing image-based backups of virtual machines, it’s useful to see the actual change rate of those virtual machines.…

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Basics: Backup Lifecycle

In the various backup/data protection groups I hang around on, I periodically see the “I’m new to backup, what do…

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NetWorker Basics – Let nsr_render_log B your friend

A post from a long time ago explained how you could enable realtime rendering of NetWorker logs from their raw…

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Basics – NetWorker AFTD on NAS

Someone recently asked me about using NetWorker to backup to a NAS, and how easy it would be to then…

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Basics – Retiring Clients in NetWorker 19.4

One of the new features introduced in NetWorker 19.4 is the concept of a NetWorker client state. A client can…

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Basics – Indexed File Recovery with NetWorker 19.4 NWUI

The HTML version of the NetWorker interface introduced file-level recovery options in 19.3. With 19.3 you got the option to…

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NetWorker Basics – Getting More from nsrcapinfo

If you want a view of the front end TB (FETB) utilisation on your NetWorker server, you turn to the…

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