Upgrade times

We live in a world of activities. Particularly in IT, almost everything we do can at some point be summarised as being…

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What’s new in 8.2?

NetWorker 8.2 entered Directed Availability (DA) status a couple of weeks ago. Between finishing up one job and looking for a…

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A very blue upgrade

I recently encountered one of those has-to-be-environmental errors that turned out to be a NetWorker issue. You know the one: the situation being explained…

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5 rules for upgrading NetWorker

So a new version of NetWorker has come out, or is coming out, and it’s been decided that you’re going…

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Why upgrade clients?

The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that…

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Get off 7.2 and 7.3

On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems…

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Wait! Don’t apply that service pack!

Recently we’re seeing a lot of people upgrading to Windows 2008 SP2, without first checking to see that release notes…

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Basics – Updates vs Upgrades

After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…

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