2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report

Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…

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What’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1?

NetWorker 9.2.1 has just been released, and the engineering and product management teams have delivered a great collection of features,…

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NetWorker 9: The future of backup

Introduction When NetWorker 8 was released I said at the time it represented the biggest consolidated set of changes to NetWorker…

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Understanding NetWorker licensing options

There are now three types of licensing options you can consider with NetWorker, and it’s helpful to understand the difference between…

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Introducing NetWorker 8

Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…

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Writing, 2147483647 sessions

Somewhere along the way in NetWorker 7.6 SP1, an annoying reporting issue crept in where a device would report the…

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7.5.2 and ADV_FILE devices

There is a bug with the way NetWorker 7.5.2 handles ADV_FILE devices in relation to disk evacuation. I.e., in a…

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Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

Over at a website called ignore the code, there’s a fascinating and insightful piece at the moment about removing features.…

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nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found

Yesterday I experienced one of those weird NetWorker issues that is such an odd combination of factors that I felt…

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Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows

There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…

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