Cumulative patch clusters

In the last few days, cumulative patch clusters have been released for the following versions of NetWorker: 7.6 – Patch…

Continue Reading →

The perils of an Icarus support contract

Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…

Continue Reading →

Mac OS X Snow Leopard and NetWorker, redux

While initially I had some success with Snow Leopard and Mac OS X, I’m increasingly finding that it’s just boiling…

Continue Reading →

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…

Continue Reading →

Get off 7.2 and 7.3

On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…

Continue Reading →

The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

Continue Reading →

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…

Continue Reading →

Don’t resent your log files!

There was a recent discussion on the NetWorker mailing list as to whether some additional logging information that appeared in…

Continue Reading →

A cautionary tale about changing pools

Sometimes I feel like a NetWorker old-timer. (When I don’t feel like a NetWorker old-timer, it doesn’t change the fact…

Continue Reading →

Gotchas for disparate versions of NMC and NetWorker

A few days ago a customer was having a rather odd problem. They’re currently running NetWorker 7.3.3 and getting ready…

Continue Reading →