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…
Category: Features
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,…
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…
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…
Introducing NetWorker 8
Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…
Writing, 2147483647 sessions
Somewhere along the way in NetWorker 7.6 SP1, an annoying reporting issue crept in where a device would report the…
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…
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….
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…
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…