What should your toolkit look like?

There should be more software installed on your NetWorker server than just the operating system and NetWorker. In order to…

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January’s Top Post

I had hoped that the NetWorker Power User’s Guide to nsradmin micromanual might be popular enough to get say, at…

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nsrnmo[291]: -l: not found

Yesterday I experienced one of those weird NetWorker issues that is such an odd combination of factors that I felt…

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NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups

There was a recent posting on the NetWorker mailing list regarding manual backups and whether they’re incrementals or not. The…

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Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed

Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database…

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Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3!

When I first mentioned probe based backups a while ago, I suggested that they’re going to be a bit of…

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How much aren’t you backing up?

Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as…

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Using NetWorker for Live Search

There was recently a discussion on the NetWorker mailing list regarding a situation whereby a company was skipping certain media…

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