Offsite your bootstrap reports

I can’t stress the importance enough of getting your bootstrap reports offsite. If you don’t have a bootstrap report available…

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Basics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units

Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme…

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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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Using probe based backups in NetWorker

Probe based backups were introduced in NetWorker 7.5, though you might think they had already existed in there, given the…

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NetWorker 7.5 and Mac OS X

Released in December 2008, NetWorker 7.5 represents an incremental increase in NetWorker functionality mainly aimed at the following three things:…

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NetWorker and the Y2038 Problem

Having spent what seemed like much of 1999 coordinating the system administration efforts of a major Y2K project for an…

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Learning NetWorker

NetWorker (indeed, any complex piece of software) is like a jigsaw puzzle. In order to use it properly, you have…

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Instantiating savesets

Following a recent discussion I’ve been having on the NetWorker Mailing List, I thought I should put a few details…

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