Shared Data Domain Access

If you’ve come from a tape library environment, you’re well aware the only way to share a tape library between multiple…

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Happy birthday NetWorker 8.2 SP1

The Features NetWorker 8.2 SP1 became available today, and as is becoming traditional for an SP1 release of NetWorker, the…

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Client checking with nsradmin

I’ve probably looked at the man page for nsradmin a half dozen times since NetWorker 8.2 came out, and I’d not…

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Turbocharged EMC NetWorker

A while ago, I set out to update the nsradmin micromanual I’d released originally in 2009. In short order though I…

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NetWorker Usage Survey, 2014-2015

It’s that time of the year again where I ask my readers to set aside 5 minutes or so to…

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Parallel Save Streams for HDFS Performance Gains

One of the great features in NetWorker 8.1 was Parallel Save Streams (PSS). This allows for a single High Density File System (HDFS) to…

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Seeing in-flight encryption with Data Domain and NetWorker at work

As I mentioned in an earlier article, Data Domain OS 5.5 introduced a new feature, in-flight encryption. This applies to Data…

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Architectural implications of in-flight Data Domain Boost encryption

Between the Boost libraries included in NetWorker 8.2, and the in-flight encryption functionality added in Data Domain OS 5.5, it’s…

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External NetWorker Authentication without AD

One of the least used features in NetWorker is the option for external authentication of user accounts for use with NMC.…

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Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs

One of the new features of NetWorker 8.2 is the expansion of Windows Block Based Backups (BBB) to support additional…

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