Screen shots don’t constitute logs

You might term this an appeal from every person who does support. If you’re dealing with a support service with…

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7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file

Yesterday I wanted to delete a few savesets from a lab server I’d upgraded from 7.4.4 to 7.5.1. Wanting to…

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Ready for {reading|writing}, idle

Sometimes NetWorker adminsitrators find themselves gnashing their teeth over the following device/media status messages: ready for reading, idle or ready…

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Recovering with scanner and uasm

There are some types of recoveries that fall into the “last ditch effort” category – everything else has been tried,…

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Basics – nsraddadmin

A simple and straight-forward command, nsraddadmin answers that problem of needing to quickly add a user account as a NetWorker…

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Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios

Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the…

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Fiji

Fiji has yet again slipped into another military dictatorship. It’s a crying shame that such a beautiful country continues to…

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NetWorker 7.5.1, Software Repository and Solaris x86/Solaris AMD

I currently have an open case with EMC about this, and I’m pushing to get these packages fixed and updated.…

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Basics – no_striped_recover

With the introduction of the advanced file type (adv_file) device in NetWorker, changes were made to support striped recoveries. This…

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Zeroth tier: the backup director

(OK, I just made that term up, there is within the NetWorker framework, no reference ever to a “zeroth” tier.…

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