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…
Category: NetWorker
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…
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…
Recovering with scanner and uasm
There are some types of recoveries that fall into the “last ditch effort” category – everything else has been tried,…
Basics – nsraddadmin
A simple and straight-forward command, nsraddadmin answers that problem of needing to quickly add a user account as a NetWorker…
Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios
Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the…
Fiji
Fiji has yet again slipped into another military dictatorship. It’s a crying shame that such a beautiful country continues to…
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….
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…
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….