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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A question that comes up regularly is “how do I find out the NetWorker version and other details for my…
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…
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…
Data Protection Advisor is an excellent tool for producing information about your backup environment, but not everyone has it in…
I’ve probably looked at the man page for nsradmin a half dozen times since NetWorker 8.2 came out, and I’d not…
Close enough together that I have to declare them a tie, the top stories for February were: micromanual: NetWorker Power…
I had hoped that the NetWorker Power User’s Guide to nsradmin micromanual might be popular enough to get say, at…
Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…
I’m pleased to say that the first micromanual for the NetWorker Information Hub is now available for download. The micromanual…
Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
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