Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?

As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale…

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NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices

As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…

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Introducing NetWorker 8

Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…

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Debugging nsrmmd

Sometimes it’s helpful to run NetWorker in debug mode – but sometimes, you just want to throw the nsrmmd processes…

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Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE

Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…

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Staging and Connectivity Loss

For a while now I’ve been working with EMC support on an issue that’s only likely to strike sites that…

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Library sharing vs Dynamic Drive Sharing

In many environments with storage nodes, a common requirement is to share backup devices between the server and/or storage nodes…

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Quibbles – nsrmmd vs process IDs

OK, there’s not a lot about NetWorker that drives me nuts. I think I’ve done only one other “Quibbles” topic…

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Dealing with low-bandwidth connection to storage nodes

The fantastic thing about NetWorker is that being a three-tier architecture, a datazone may encompass far more than just a…

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