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…
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…
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’…
Basics – jbverify
Now, some might say that I’m not the smartest card in the deck for what I’m about to note, but…
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…
Basics – Remote Control
I learned this technique several years ago before NetWorker supported running an nsrjb command from the backup server to manipulate…
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…
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…
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…