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…
Category: Basics
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,…
Basics – Old Savegroup Messages
A long time ago, in a NetWorker far, far away, all the output of a savegroup was included in the…
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…
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…
Differentiating Differentials
Pretty much everyone understands full and incremental backups in NetWorker. A full backup is a backup of everything, and an…
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…
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…
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…
Basics – Jobkill goes interactive
In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…