Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker

Parallelism in NetWorker is effectively multiplexing by another name. There are three areas where you have traditionally been able to…

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Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times

Ever need to adjust the browse/retention time for a saveset, but you’ve not been sure how to do so? Here’s…

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Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes

Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…

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Timeout – Victorian Bush Fire Relief

For the past week, Victorians have been battling the deadliest bushfire conditions in recorded history in Australia. The death toll…

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Basics – dbgcommand

Note: Please understand I’m not suggesting you play around with this feature randomly or without good reason. You shouldn’t make…

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Picking the best backup server

I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…

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Offsite your bootstrap reports

I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…

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Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag

NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…

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The naming of backup servers

I’m a big fan of RFC-1178; thus, I’m not too keen on backup server names such as say, nsrserv, bckmast01,…

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Monthly rather than weekly fulls using backup to disk

When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…

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