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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Basics – Cloning vs Staging

When people are just starting to get into NetWorker, a common situation is that they get confused about the difference…

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ADV_FILE devices and tape rotation strategies

While I touched on this in the second blog posting I made (Instantiating Savesets), it’s worthwhile revisiting this topic more…

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Basics – Need a different volume from pool …

The scenario: A clone or stage operation has aborted (or otherwise failed) It has been restarted It hangs waiting for…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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Basics – Staging

In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…

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Quibbles – Cloning and Staging

For the most part cloning and staging within NetWorker are pretty satisfactory, particularly when viewed from a combination of automated…

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7.5(.1) changed behaviour – deleting savesets from adv_file

Yesterday I wanted to delete a few savesets from a lab server I’d upgraded from 7.4.4 to 7.5.1. Wanting to…

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