Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices
If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…
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NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate?
Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…
Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files
You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…
Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies
A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…
Proof of Concept: Docker with BoostFS
Docker: it’s where all the cool kids are playing these days (or so I’m told). It’s certainly got some good…
Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker
In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images…
Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…
Basics – Avamar Client Logs
If you’re new to Avamar, you might not know that the Avamar backup agent writes a lot of useful information…
Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage
Introduction When you’re writing backups to tape, capacity reclamation is pretty straight forward (unless you’re using an archive product that…
Basics – Numbers Matter
OK, so here’s the thing for me: I kind of suck at maths. Not so much in a “can’t solve…