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…
Category: NetWorker
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…