Writing, 2147483647 sessions

Somewhere along the way in NetWorker 7.6 SP1, an annoying reporting issue crept in where a device would report the…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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15 crazy things I never want to hear again

Over the years I’ve dealt with a lot of different environments, and a lot of different usage requirements for backup…

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Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…

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Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI?

For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…

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Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets?

NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…

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Quibbles – Directive Management Redux

A while ago, I made a posting about a long-running annoyance I have with directive management in NetWorker. This time…

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Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM

When it comes to backup and data protection, I like to think of myself as being somewhat of a stickler…

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Quibbles – Directive Management

I’m a big fan of careful management of directives – for instance, I always go by the axiom that it’s…

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Quibbles – Cloning and Staging

For the most part cloning and staging within NetWorker are pretty satisfactory, particularly when viewed from a combination of automated…

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