NetWorker Pools with Data Domain

As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…

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Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker

Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…

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NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging

One of the things that I forgot to mention earlier that’s included in the NetWorker 18.1 release is a function…

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NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices

As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…

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7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies

I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…

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Basics – Cloning vs Staging

When people are just starting to get into NetWorker, a common situation is that they get confused about the difference…

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Killing scheduled cloning operations

In a previous blog post, I discussed how much I liked the scheduled cloning operations introduced in NetWorker 7.6 SP1.…

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NetWorker 7.6 SP1

Introduction I was lucky enough to get to work on the beta testing programme for NetWorker 7.6 SP1. While there…

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ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more…

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Basics – Need a different volume from pool …

The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…

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