Basics – Experimenting with the REST API in NetWorker

Overview As I mentioned in the previous article, NetWorker 9 SP1 has introduced a REST API. I’ve never previously got around to…

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Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS

Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…

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NetWorker Scales El Capitan

When Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) came out, I upgraded my personal desktop and laptop to El Capitan. The upgrade went…

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Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem

“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. — I…

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Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups

If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and…

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Basics – Running VMware Protection Policies from the Command Line

If you’ve been adapting VMware Protection Policies via VBA in your environment (like so many businesses have been!), you’ll likely reach…

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Records retention and NMC

For those of us who have been using NetWorker for a very long time, we can remember back to when the NetWorker Management…

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Basics – Workflow for adding a new client

A question I get asked from time to time is “How do I do X in NetWorker?”, and by how, I…

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Basics – Force incremental

In one of those “old dogs can learn new tricks” scenarios, or perhaps more correctly, “never believe it until you’ve read…

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