Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices

If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…

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Multi-Systems Search

In my previous post, I walked through the process of getting Data Protection Search up and running – from that…

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Basics – Getting a bootstrap with every backup

One question you’ll periodically see raised in NetWorker forums is … “why am I getting a bootstrap backup with every…

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Best Practice – Are index pools required?

A common question that you see fielded regularly is whether or not it’s “best practice” to have dedicated index pools.…

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Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI?

For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…

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Basics – Null vs Skip Directives

One of the most common mistakes made by people new to NetWorker when setting up directives is using the skip…

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Does NetWorker scan the indices for changed files when it does a backup?

This is a fairly common question to see asked – does NetWorker, when a non-full backup is run, scan the…

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Is your backup server fast enough?

Is your backup server a modern, state of the art machine with high speed disk, significant IO throughput capabilities and…

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Basics – Listing files in a backup

A fairly common question I get asked is “How can I find out what files were backed up?” This is…

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