All things Data Protection
Did you know that NetWorker lets you ‘roll your own’ savesets? This functionality gives you a great deal of flexibility in customising your backup configuration to make critical datasets readily identifiable. Here’s how.
Normally you don’t want to be in this position, but sometimes you’ll strike a situation where the only possible location…
There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough…
Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…
NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…
Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
Generally speaking I don’t have a lot of time for NetBackup, primarily due to the lack of dependency checking. That’s…
Ever need to adjust the browse/retention time for a saveset, but you’ve not been sure how to do so? Here’s…
Following a recent discussion I’ve been having on the NetWorker Mailing List, I thought I should put a few details…