My Personal NetWorker Wish List

This is not necessarily reflective of my customers, though several of them have expressed desire for at least one or…

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Basics – Using datazone encryption with NetWorker

I’m not fond of software encryption (or compression, for that matter). Particularly in a 24×7 enterprise environment, clients (i.e., production…

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Does your backup administrator have a say in change control?

This blog post has moved, and can now be found at the Enterprise Backup Blog, here. Related posts: Going on…

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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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Getting jobquery to talk to you

I’ve been using nsradmin for the last 12 years. So when I read about a new utility, ‘jobquery’ in NetWorker…

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Basics – Parallelism in NetWorker

Parallelism in NetWorker is effectively multiplexing by another name. There are three areas where you have traditionally been able to…

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Basics – Changing saveset browse/retention times

Ever need to adjust the browse/retention time for a saveset, but you’ve not been sure how to do so? Here’s…

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Basics – Stopping and starting NetWorker from the Windows command line

I always like to know how to work with the command line, even on Windows. (As I say in my…

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Basics – dbgcommand

Note: Please understand I’m not suggesting you play around with this feature randomly or without good reason. You shouldn’t make…

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Picking the best backup server

I’ll start this by saying that I used to be an out-and-out Unix bigot, and would still classify myself as…

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