Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs

One of the new features of NetWorker 8.2 is the expansion of Windows Block Based Backups (BBB) to support additional…

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Basics – Tape capacity and compression

Tape capacity. It should be straight forward, but many people tend to look at only the biggest, most optimistic numbers,…

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Basics – Old Savegroup Messages

A long time ago, in a NetWorker far, far away, all the output of a savegroup was included in the…

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Basics – Getting a bootstrap with every backup

One question you’ll periodically see raised in NetWorker forums is … “why am I getting a bootstrap backup with every…

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Client side compression gets a squeeze

One of the enhancements to NetWorker v8 has been the introduction of additional client side compression options. If you’ve been…

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Differentiating Differentials

Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…

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Basics – NetWorker and Push/Pull Recovery Models

A common theme of question asked by people new to NetWorker is whether it supports a push or pull recovery…

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Automedia Management in Tape Libraries

A recurring theme on the NetWorker Mailing List is people not understanding how Automedia Management operates in tape libraries. Here’s…

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5 rules for upgrading NetWorker

So a new version of NetWorker has come out, or is coming out, and it’s been decided that you’re going…

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Basics – Jobkill goes interactive

In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…

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