{"id":10738,"date":"2022-01-24T06:20:50","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2022-01-24T06:20:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T20:20:53","slug":"networker-19-6-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/networker-19-6-at-a-glance\/","title":{"rendered":"NetWorker 19.6 At a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus over the past month. 2021 was a pretty busy year for me so I took some well-earned downtime into the new year, and the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been focused on getting into my new role in product management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that time, NetWorker 19.6 has been released, and in this post we&#8217;ll have a look at what&#8217;s new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The HTML5-based NetWorker UI (NWUI) continues its progress march, with a number of enhancements, including a dashboard view:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2263\" height=\"986\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard.png 2263w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-1024x446.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-1536x669.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-2048x892.png 2048w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NW196_Dashboard-1600x697.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2263px) 100vw, 2263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NetWorker 19.6 Dashboard View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the revised monitoring panel you can selectively monitor policies, workflows and actions in addition to active sessions, recoveries, and so on. This also lets you start individual clients, too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1763\" height=\"631\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1.png 1763w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1-1024x367.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1-768x275.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1-1536x550.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_1-1600x573.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1763px) 100vw, 1763px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Starting an individual client for a workflow &#8211; part 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1239\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2.png 1080w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2-262x300.png 262w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2-893x1024.png 893w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_2-768x881.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Starting an individual client for a workflow &#8211; part 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1943\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3.png 1943w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3-1024x298.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3-768x224.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3-1536x447.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Workflow_Start_Individual_3-1600x466.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1943px) 100vw, 1943px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Starting an individual client for a workflow &#8211; part 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s also been updates to saveset access and control, too &#8211; such as finding and adjusting the retention time for specific savesets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2259\" height=\"1507\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention.png 2259w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-1536x1025.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-2048x1366.png 2048w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Change_Retention-1600x1067.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2259px) 100vw, 2259px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Changing Saveset Retention Time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m really loving the move to HTML5 interfaces. There&#8217;s obviously a lot of work under the hood to get there: you switch from a tradition client\/server model with near-continuous communications to a REST API model that has to encompass stateless interchanges. But the net benefit is you get an interface that you can access from anywhere:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1216\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-1024x486.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-768x365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-1536x729.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-2048x973.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/NWUI-Galaxy-1600x760.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>NWUI From a Smart Phone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Updates aren&#8217;t limited to the NWUI, though. Let&#8217;s take a turn around the some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.dell.com\/content\/manual32533708-networker-19-6-release-notes.pdf?language=en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"release notes\"><strong>release notes<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>LTO-9 Support<\/strong>: If you&#8217;re still using tape in your backup environment, LTO-9 qualification means you can use the latest release in the Ultrium series.<\/li><li><strong>Block Based Backup<\/strong>: Support has been added for additional client operating systems, including Ubuntu 20.04, RedHat Enterprise 8.4, and CentOS 8.4.<\/li><li><strong>macOS Support<\/strong>: NetWorker 19.6 is now qualified for running on the newer macOS releases that have a revised security and data containment model.<\/li><li><strong>Pushed upgrades<\/strong>: When a host has both the base filesystem client <em>and<\/em> a module installed on it, you can now upgrade the software through a single <strong>nsrpush <\/strong>operation rather than one after the other.<\/li><li><strong>Efficient scanning options<\/strong>: The scanner utility (used to reconstruct indices\/media database information) has a couple of extra efficiencies, allowing you to do incremental scans, and mergers.<\/li><li><strong>Cloning<\/strong>: Traditionally if you told NetWorker &#8220;clone these ten savesets&#8221;, NetWorker will go ahead and do it, but not always in the order you might have expected. Now cloning happens in chronological order, from oldest saveset to newest saveset.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also updates to do with various libraries (and yes, including Apache Log4j), the NetWorker server disaster recovery utility (nsrdr), and NDMP\/NFS backup handling. (For the full list of updates and resolved issues, refer to the release notes I linked to above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus over the past month. 2021 was a pretty busy year for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[1637,1249,1050],"class_list":["post-10738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-networker","tag-19-6","tag-networker","tag-update"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/bigStock-Update-Icon.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-2Nc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}