Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X

I have, on a few occasions, been puzzled as to how to downgrade NetWorker on Mac OS X. There’s a…

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NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released

NetWorker 7.5 SP3 has been released today, and with it comes a selection of important changes, including: ADV_FILE devices now…

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Know your environment

Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in…

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Why upgrade clients?

The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that…

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Divorcing NMC from NetWorker

The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Optional storage nodes and/or dedicated storage nodes The NetWorker server…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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Large group backups

A very traditional approach to configuring automated backups in NetWorker is to make use of the schedule override feature in…

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Cumulative patch clusters come in from the cold

There’s long been discussion – particularly between support partners and EMC – about the rather cloak-and-dagger way that cumulative patch…

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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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Mac OS X 10.6.3 and NetWorker

Less than a month ago, Apple released service pack 3 to Snow Leopard – i.e., 10.6.3. A few days after…

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