Quibbles – A better NetWorker init script would be nice…

Coming primarily from a Unix background, I’ve remained disappointed for 10+ years that NetWorker’s init script has barely changed in…

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Directives and change control

It’s easy to change NetWorker directives. A few clicks here and there if you use NMC, then a couple of…

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Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)

A rather smart gent whom I used to work with at another company, Mark Harvey, has in his own time…

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Basics – NetWorker differential levels

One question I’m often asked by people who haven’t used differential levels within NetWorker is what is the purpose of…

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Upgrading NetWorker and the ‘tmp’ directory

Over the years I’ve been forced to come to one key conclusion about the NetWorker ‘tmp’ directory and NetWorker upgrades.…

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Basics – Achieving higher frequency backups

For the most part we run standard backups once every 24 hours – daily. A lot of the time if…

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Basics – Null vs Skip Directives

One of the most common mistakes made by people new to NetWorker when setting up directives is using the skip…

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Are you Monitoring RAP?

Introduced in NetWorker v7 was a feature called “Monitor RAP”. There’s two unfortunate aspects to this setting in the NetWorker…

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My Personal NetWorker Wish List

This is not necessarily reflective of my customers, though several of them have expressed desire for at least one or…

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Oracle channels and NetWorker parallelism

If you’re backing up Oracle with the NetWorker module/RMAN, there are an extremely large number of options you can choose…

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