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…
Know your environment
Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in…
Why upgrade clients?
The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that…
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…
Virtualisation and testing
Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…
Large group backups
A very traditional approach to configuring automated backups in NetWorker is to make use of the schedule override feature in…
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…
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…
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…