NetWorker 8.2 and VBA Instant-Access

One of the great new features in NetWorker is the integration of Instant Access, whereby virtual machines backed up with the VBA…

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Turbocharged EMC NetWorker

A while ago, I set out to update the nsradmin micromanual I’d released originally in 2009. In short order though I…

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The Data Protection Manifesto

In my last post for 2014, I want to touch briefly on a few rules I think everyone in our…

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Records retention and NMC

For those of us who have been using NetWorker for a very long time, we can remember back to when the NetWorker Management…

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A locale problem

I had a doozy of a problem a short while ago – NetWorker 8.2 in a big environment, and every…

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NetWorker Usage Survey, 2014-2015

It’s that time of the year again where I ask my readers to set aside 5 minutes or so to…

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Not so squeezy

It’s funny, the little tools you build up over the years as someone heavily involved in backup, particularly when it…

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Parallel Save Streams for HDFS Performance Gains

One of the great features in NetWorker 8.1 was Parallel Save Streams (PSS). This allows for a single High Density File System (HDFS) to…

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Backing up renamed directories

Long-term NetWorker administrators may remember that NetWorker used to have a somewhat odd mechanism of dealing with renamed directories. Nowadays the default option…

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The current state of virtual machine backups in NetWorker

Introduction There’s currently three distinct and still-supported mechanisms for backing up virtual machines in NetWorker. These are: Traditional (in-guest agent)…

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