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…
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…
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…
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:…
Basics – Directed Recoveries
Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…
NetWorker and Snow Leopard, Redux
When Snow Leopard first came out, I was reasonably impressed with how easily NetWorker continued to operate with it –…
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…
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…
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…