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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Basics – Staging
In NetWorker, staging refers to moving savesets from one piece of media to another. The move operation is two-fold, consisting…
Quibbles – Cloning and Staging
For the most part cloning and staging within NetWorker are pretty satisfactory, particularly when viewed from a combination of automated…
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…