Using NetWorker for Live Search

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media…

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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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Routine filesystem checks on disk backup units

On Linu, filesystems typically have two settings regarding getting complete checks on boot. These are: Maximum number of mounts before…

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Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts

Something I’ve seen a few people complain about – and indeed that I’ve also complained about in the past, is…

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Basics – Standalone drive auto media management

I don’t have many customers with standalone tape drives. Usually when they do, it’s due to one of two reasons:…

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Basics – Directed Recoveries

Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…

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NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux

When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it –…

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The 7 procedural obligations of backup administrators

A while ago, I ran a post titled Ethical Obligations of Backup Administrators. Following up from that now I want…

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Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker

A few days ago a customer was having a rather odd problem. They’re currently running NetWorker 7.3.3 and getting ready…

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Basics – Peeking inside your jukebox without leaving your desk

In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current…

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