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…

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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…

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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…

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Quibbles – Why can’t you clone or stage incomplete savesets?

NetWorker has an irritating quirk where it doesn’t allow you to clone or stage incomplete savesets. I can understand the…

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