Basics – Making Light Work of Ultra-Dense Filesystems

Introduction Dense filesystems are, without a doubt, the bane of the average backup administrator’s life. Everything in the environment is…

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The Last Gasp of Windows 2008

Hopefully it’s reasonably well known that Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 are almost end of service life. In case…

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Windows block based backup with Linux AFTDs

One of the new features of NetWorker 8.2 is the expansion of Windows Block Based Backups (BBB) to support additional…

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The virtue of persistence

I have to say, I’m really liking NetWorker’s ability to work with persistent binding on tape libraries now. If you’re…

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NetWorker Firewall Configuration on Windows

I’ve been involved with an increasing number of NetWorker 7.6 SP1 configurations on Windows 2008 R2, and I’m not sure…

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Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows

There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…

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Windows, VSS, VMware and VCB/vSphere Backups

Over at Backup Central, Curtis Preston has written a couple of excellent blog posts to do with VSS. The first,…

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Using the NetWorker Software Distribution Functionality

There’s an old saying, “Be careful what you wish for; you may get it.” Many would say that’s an apt…

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Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup?

This is a fairly common question to see asked – does NetWorker, when a non-full backup is run, scan the…

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Client operating systems should not be changed

While researching an issue today I was reminded of a problem I had a few years ago that still remains…

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