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…
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…
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….
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…