Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies
A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…
Category: NetWorker
Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?
Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…
Basics – Dynamic VMware Policies with NetWorker 18.2
I really love adaptive backup processes – that is, NetWorker and Avamar’s functions around defining dynamic selections of resources to be…
Updated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker
In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images…
Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…
Reflections on 2018
In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…
Data Protection Suite 18.2
Introduction Earlier this month, Data Protection Suite 18.2 was released. This covers: Avamar Data Protection Advisor (DPA) Data Protection Central…
Multi-Systems Search
In my previous post, I walked through the process of getting Data Protection Search up and running – from that…
Data Protection Search Overview
First up, a quick explanation: I’ve not posted a lot of late because I’ve spent most of my time outside…
A Simple Linux KVM Backup Framework using NetWorker
Of late I’ve been playing around a little bit with KVM. I must admit, it’s not really my virtualisation system…