Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets?

NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…

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Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle

Within NetWorker, data (savesets) can go through several stages in its lifecycle. Here’s a simple overview of those stages: The…

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Aside – Data visualisation in the AlloSphere

Over at TED, there’s a short yet highly interesting look at data visualisation technology called the AlloSphere. I’m a big…

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Laptop/Desktop Backups as easy as 1-2-3!

When I first mentioned probe based backups a while ago, I suggested that they’re going to be a bit of…

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Enhancing RFEs

Over at Grumpy Storage, there’s currently a fantastic piece about the sorry state of how Requests for Enhancement are handled…

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Don’t resent your log files!

There was a recent discussion on the NetWorker mailing list as to whether some additional logging information that appeared in…

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Quibbles – Directive Management Redux

A while ago, I made a posting about a long-running annoyance I have with directive management in NetWorker. This time…

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The scandalous truth about Clouds

Your cloud based data may be hanging by a thread and you wouldn’t even know. Introduction The recent Sidekick debacle…

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Staging and Connectivity Loss

For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…

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Basics – Default pool debugging 101

Many of us with NetWorker have been in the situation where a backup has started (particularly when it’s for a…

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