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…
Category: NetWorker
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…
Index backups for recovery
We want to be able to do index recoveries, right? If something terrible happens on the backup server, being able…
Recording Client IDs
My colleague Brian Norris has an excellent suggestion in his blog about periodically capturing the client IDs within the NetWorker…
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…
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…
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…
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: Things…
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…
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…