Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts

Something I’ve seen a few people complain about – and indeed that I’ve also complained about in the past, is…

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Top 5 Reflections

So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular…

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Basics – Important mminfo fields

Most NetWorker administrators with even a passing familiarity of mminfo will be aware of the “savetime” field, which reports when…

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Finding files in your indices

Everyone has had that horror recovery scenario, where a user wants a file recovered, but they can’t tell you where…

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Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag

NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…

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Basics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than

Take a basic mminfo query, add someone not familiar with how NetWorker stores and works with dates/times, and you have…

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