Backups are not about being miserly
Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…
Basics – Stopping and restarting NetWorker on Mac OS X
If you’re a NetWorker administrator, but not a Mac OS X administrator, you may be unfamiliar with the process to…
Keep your logs
Something I mention in my book, but which is worth elaborating further upon, is the need to keep backups of…
Leaving on a jet plane
I’m heading to Auckland for a few days for the annual IDATA kick off. While I’m gone I’ll have less…
When should you clean your drives?
A recent discussion on the NetWorker Mailing List about configuring cleaning cartridges prompted me that it would be worthwhile to…
Basics – mmpool
The utility mmpool is one of those lesser used utilities in NetWorker that you may not necessarily know about, nor…
Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher
One of the policy changes made in NetWorker 7.4.4 (and which applies to 7.5.x as well) is that of client…
Dealing with low-bandwidth connection to storage nodes
The fantastic thing about NetWorker is that being a three-tier architecture, a datazone may encompass far more than just a…
Aside – Marketing
I periodically spend Sunday mornings and other quiet times delving through the articles pointed to by undrln. One that caught…
Determining your NetWorker binary build details
Occasionally, depending on the issue you are having, EMC support or EMC engineering may request that you provide your NetWorker…