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…
Introducing NetWorker 8
Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…
Debugging nsrmmd
Sometimes it’s helpful to run NetWorker in debug mode – but sometimes, you just want to throw the nsrmmd processes…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…