Basics – Why is NetWorker asking for a Default tape?
So you’ve got a pending message sitting there in NMC, NetWorker logs and nsrwatch: Waiting for 1 writable volume(s) to…
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Basics – NetWorker Server Client ID
When reviewing a customer’s logs today, I noticed yet another one of those minor (but great) changes that periodically get…
Basics – Cloning vs Staging
When people are just starting to get into NetWorker, a common situation is that they get confused about the difference…
Killing scheduled cloning operations
In a previous blog post, I discussed how much I liked the scheduled cloning operations introduced in NetWorker 7.6 SP1….
Basics – Specifying a default Jukebox
If you’ve got multiple jukeboxes within a NetWorker environment, but primarily work with one of them, you may find ‘nsrjb’…
Basics – Recovering from an aborted saveset
Normally you don’t want to be in this position, but sometimes you’ll strike a situation where the only possible location…
Basics – Skip and Forget
For quite a while I worked under the assumption that you could do the following with directives in NetWorker: <<…
Basics – Bypassing NetWorker for media movement
Sometimes NetWorker may not want to cooperate when it comes to moving media in and out of drives, or around…
Basics – VTLs and default media sizes
While this is pertinent to all versions of NetWorker, it particularly seems relevant mentioning now, since as of 7.5.2, we’re…
Basics – Need a different volume from pool …
The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…