Sometime in 2003 I installed my last (and possibly last ever) Linux desktop machine. Having been a fan of Linux…
I’m a big fan of RFC-1178; thus, I’m not too keen on backup server names such as say, nsrserv, bckmast01,…
When backup to disk is deployed, most sites usually just transition from their standard tape backups to disk without any…
I thought I’d just interrupt the regular flow of NetWorker commentary to recommend that you check out my book, Enterprise…
Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…
I started administering NetWorker servers in 1996. At the time I was working with Solstice Backup, the Sun OEM rebadged…
Take a basic mminfo query, add someone not familiar with how NetWorker stores and works with dates/times, and you have…
This post has now been moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog. You can find it here. Related posts: What’s backup…
A fairly common question I get asked is “How can I find out what files were backed up?” This is…
Probe based backups were introduced in NetWorker 7.5, though you might think they had already existed in there, given the…