Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups

If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and…

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Basics – Workflow for adding a new client

A question I get asked from time to time is “How do I do X in NetWorker?”, and by how, I…

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5 rules for upgrading NetWorker

So a new version of NetWorker has come out, or is coming out, and it’s been decided that you’re going…

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Basics – Specifying a default Jukebox

If you’ve got multiple jukeboxes within a NetWorker environment, but primarily work with one of them, you may find ‘nsrjb’…

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Basics – jbverify

Now, some might say that I’m not the smartest card in the deck for what I’m about to note, but…

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Basics – Using datazone encryption with NetWorker

I’m not fond of software encryption (or compression, for that matter). Particularly in a 24×7 enterprise environment, clients (i.e., production…

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Basics – Remote Control

I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate…

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Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times

Ever need to adjust the browse/retention time for a saveset, but you’ve not been sure how to do so? Here’s…

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Basics – Stopping and starting NetWorker from the Windows command line

I always like to know how to work with the command line, even on Windows. (As I say in my…

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Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units

Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…

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