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…
Category: Scripting
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…