Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats

If you use NetWorker with Data Domain, you’ve probably sometimes wanted to know which of your clients have the best…

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Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime fields

When you’re using NetWorker on the command line, one of the tools you’ll use most regularly is the mminfo command.…

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Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details

When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,…

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Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies

A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…

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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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mminfo2html

I’ve started working on a new eBook, Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, aimed squarely at NetWorker administrators who want to get more out of…

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mminfo and NOT queries

A question that’s just come up on the NetWorker mailing list again (it’s a periodic one) is, “how do I…

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NetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups

There was a recent posting on the NetWorker mailing list regarding manual backups and whether they’re incrementals or not. The…

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Saveset sizes from 32-bit Windows

There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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