The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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Lessons I’ve recently learned…

When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…

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Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle

Within NetWorker, data (savesets) can go through several stages in its lifecycle. Here’s a simple overview of those stages: The…

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Basics – Default pool debugging 101

Many of us with NetWorker have been in the situation where a backup has started (particularly when it’s for a…

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Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing

In many environments with storage nodes, a common requirement is to share backup devices between the server and/or storage nodes…

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Basics – Standalone drive auto media management

I don’t have many customers with standalone tape drives. Usually when they do, it’s due to one of two reasons:…

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Basics – Directed Recoveries

Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…

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Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk

In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current…

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Basics – Staging

In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…

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