Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units
Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…
Category: NetWorker
nsrwatch, the most missing tool under NetWorker for Windows
I started administering NetWorker servers in 1996. At the time I was working with Solstice Backup, the Sun OEM rebadged…
Basics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than
Take a basic mminfo query, add someone not familiar with how NetWorker stores and works with dates/times, and you have…
Basics – Listing files in a backup
A fairly common question I get asked is “How can I find out what files were backed up?” This is…
Using probe based backups in NetWorker
Probe based backups were introduced in NetWorker 7.5, though you might think they had already existed in there, given the…
NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X
Released in December 2008, NetWorker 7.5 represents an incremental increase in NetWorker functionality mainly aimed at the following three things:…
NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem
Having spent what seemed like much of 1999 coordinating the system administration efforts of a major Y2K project for an…
Learning NetWorker
NetWorker (indeed, any complex piece of software) is like a jigsaw puzzle. In order to use it properly, you have…
Instantiating savesets
Following a recent discussion I’ve been having on the NetWorker Mailing List, I thought I should put a few details…
How old is your media?
There are several components to determining media ‘age’. These are: Usage count – the more times a tape is used,…