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