NetWorker Pools with Data Domain

As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…

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Best Practice – Pool content

NB: Don’t forget to fill in the NetWorker Usage Survey, if you haven’t already done so. It’s open until 31 January…

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The Half-Life of a Backup

Every backup you do has a half-life, which isn’t the retention period of the backup. Now, if you’re new to…

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Validcopies hazardous to your sanity

While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of…

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How much aren’t you backing up?

Do you have a clear picture of everything that you’re not backing up? For many sites, the answer is not as…

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Basics – mmlocate vs ‘offsite’ flag

NetWorker has long supported a volume location field; this can be shown in the GUI, and can be set and…

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