Downgrading NetWorker on Mac OS X

I have, on a few occasions, been puzzled as to how to downgrade NetWorker on Mac OS X. There’s a…

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NetWorker 7.5 SP3 Released

NetWorker 7.5 SP3 has been released today, and with it comes a selection of important changes, including: ADV_FILE devices now…

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The Half-Life of a Backup

Every backup you do has a half-life, which isn’t the retention period of the backup. Now, if you’re new to…

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Know your environment

Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in…

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Why upgrade clients?

The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that…

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Plenty of life left in tape

With LTO-5 now just starting to go mainstream, it’s reassuring to see that the Ultrium roadmap has been expanded with…

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Telling facts

I joined Twitter about 6 months ago, having resisted it for some time. My only regret now is that I…

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Microsoft, start your copiers

For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…

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Divorcing NMC from NetWorker

The classic NetWorker install will see: A bunch of clients Optional storage nodes and/or dedicated storage nodes The NetWorker server…

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Site outage

Today my site hosting service suffered an outage of over 12 hours. While this was the first major outage for…

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