Basics – Getting NetWorker Client Details

A question that comes up regularly is “how do I find out the NetWorker version and other details for my…

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Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies

NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…

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Updated checks in nsradmin

A while ago EMC engineering updated the venerable nsradmin utility to include automated checking options, with an initial focus on checks for NetWorker clients. As…

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Sampling device performance

Data Protection Advisor is an excellent tool for producing information about your backup environment, but not everyone has it in…

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Client checking with nsradmin

I’ve probably looked at the man page for nsradmin a half dozen times since NetWorker 8.2 came out, and I’d not…

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Aside – Top Stories for February

Close enough together that I have to declare them a tie, the top stories for February were: micromanual: NetWorker Power…

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January’s Top Post

I had hoped that the NetWorker Power User’s Guide to nsradmin micromanual might be popular enough to get say, at…

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Nybbles for the end of the week

Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…

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micromanual: NetWorker Power User Guide to nsradmin

I’m pleased to say that the first micromanual for the NetWorker Information Hub is now available for download. The micromanual…

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Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks

Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…

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