Recovery reporting comes to NetWorker

One of the areas where administrators have been rightly able to criticise NetWorker has been the lack of reporting or…

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The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery

You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…

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Recovery is NOT #3

There’s a Top 10 Reasons marketing document from EMC now explaining why you should be using NetWorker. While obviously this…

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Trickle recoveries aren’t recoveries

In environments with satellite offices, a common “backup” technique described in a lot of situations is what I’d generically call…

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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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My worst recovery ever

Everyone makes mistakes. That’s part of being human. Indeed, I’d suggest that anyone who expects you to never make mistakes…

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Mistakes you don’t want to make

Many years ago, a company switched from ArcServe to NetWorker. They did so around the time they made their end…

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Backups are not about being miserly

Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…

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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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Basics – no_striped_recover

With the introduction of the advanced file type (adv_file) device in NetWorker, changes were made to support striped recoveries. This…

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