The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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Staging and Connectivity Loss

For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…

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A cautionary tale about changing pools

Sometimes I feel like a NetWorker old-timer. (When I don’t feel like a NetWorker old-timer, it doesn’t change the fact…

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Client side compression and saveset sizes

While it turned out to be unrelated, a recent customer question made me think back to the impact of client…

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Basics – Updates vs Upgrades

After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…

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NetWorker 7.5 and Oracle Module 5

Since I have more than a passing interest in databases, I always try to keep appraised of the Oracle module…

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7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file

Yesterday I wanted to delete a few savesets from a lab server I’d upgraded from 7.4.4 to 7.5.1. Wanting to…

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