Basics – Commands you should know Part 2

Continuing the Commands you should know topic, here’s a single variant of nsrjb that you really, really should know. Introduced…

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Is your backup server fast enough?

Is your backup server a modern, state of the art machine with high speed disk, significant IO throughput capabilities and…

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Index backups for recovery

We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able…

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Recording Client IDs

My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…

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Tape libraries and the hidden speeds

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list that was sparked by someone asking what sort of LTO-4…

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Traps when upgrading from 7.3.x to 7.4.x – CDI

I’ve had a few customers in the last few days now upgrade from NetWorker 7.3.x to 7.4.x, and the most…

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Basics – Fixing “NSR peer information” errors

If you’re using a modern NetWorker environment, the chances are that you’ll periodically notice entries such as the following in…

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Audit is not a 4-letter word

This post has now been moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog. You can find it here. Related posts: NetWorker…

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Getting jobquery to talk to you

I’ve been using nsradmin for the last 12 years. So when I read about a new utility, ‘jobquery’ in NetWorker…

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Basics – Commands you should know

[This is something I’ll revisit from time to time and update.] There are some commands you should always be aware…

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