NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI

NetWorker 19.3 introduced the option to redeploy VMware image-based backup proxies via the NWUI interface. Previously that functionality had been…

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Basics – NetWorker Multiple Virtual Machine Recovery Operation

Here’s a really great function of NetWorker: being able to kick off the recovery of multiple virtual machines simultaneously. One…

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Automated Testing of Virtual Machine Recoveries using NetWorker

While Avamar has options for automating the test of virtual machine recoveries, it’s not functionality that’s present in NetWorker. Recently…

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Basics – Finding Unprotected Virtual Machines with NetWorker

Most environments these days have a high percentage of virtualisation. It’s not uncommon to see 90% or more of all…

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Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details

When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,…

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Data Protection Software 19.1

It’s that time! Data Protection Software 19.1 has been released. With new versions released simultaneously, that means there’s updates available…

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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…

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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…

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Introduction to NetWorker 18.1 WebUI

In my previous post, I mentioned how NetWorker 18.1 introduces the WebUI. While NMC is still present in NetWorker 18.1,…

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2017 in Review

With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year…

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