Working with Restore Plans

Restore Plans were introduced in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.14. Restore Plans are simple, yet offer a great deal of power…

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Basics: Recovering Data Backed up over NFS

Backing up data from an NFS mount-point is not ideal, but sometimes we don’t have a choice. There’s a few reasons…

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Testing (and debugging) an emergency restore

A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…

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A locale problem

I had a doozy of a problem a short while ago – NetWorker 8.2 in a big environment, and every…

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Long term NetWare recovery

Are you still backing up Novell NetWare hosts? If you are, I hope you’re actively considering what you’re going to…

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Basics – Directed Recoveries

Periodically people who are new to NetWorker will lament that it doesn’t support “push” recoveries. That is, a recovery run…

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Recovering with scanner and uasm

There are some types of recoveries that fall into the “last ditch effort” category – everything else has been tried,…

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Difficult ‘recover’ scenarios

Even though I usually avoid using GUIs for recoveries*, given my main workstation is a Mac, I don’t have the…

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