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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Basics – Customising the NMC login screen
Most companies will have their own standard-usage policy. Log into most Unix, Linux or Windows servers these days and you’ll…
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…