Basics – Perpetual overrides in schedules

In the dim dark days of NetWorker (e.g., v4 and v5), I used to have periodic cron jobs that would…

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Basics – Auto media verify

Despite being such a useful feature, it’s surprising how often I see the auto media verify setting disabled across all…

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Basics – What inode did that file have when it was backed up?

I had an odd question recently from a customer – they wanted to know whether NetWorker could tell them what…

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Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting

Here’s a common scenario – you want to label a volume, or relabel a volume, and use it straight away.…

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Basics – Updates vs Upgrades

After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…

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Basics – Realtime rendered logs and other log options

NetWorker 7.4 saw the introduction of language-neutral logs – raw logs, if you will, in the form of changing daemon.log…

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Top 5 Reflections

So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular…

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Basics – NetWorker differential levels

One question I’m often asked by people who haven’t used differential levels within NetWorker is what is the purpose of…

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Basics – Achieving higher frequency backups

For the most part we run standard backups once every 24 hours – daily. A lot of the time if…

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Basics – Null vs Skip Directives

One of the most common mistakes made by people new to NetWorker when setting up directives is using the skip…

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