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…
Category: Windows
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…