Instantiating savesets
Following a recent discussion I’ve been having on the NetWorker Mailing List, I thought I should put a few details down about clone IDs. If you don’t clone your backups (and if you don’t: why not?),...
View ArticleBasics – Listing files in a backup
A fairly common question I get asked is “How can I find out what files were backed up?” This is actually fairly easy, particularly if you’re prepared to use the command line. You need to run two...
View ArticleBasics – mminfo, savetime and greater than/less than
Take a basic mminfo query, add someone not familiar with how NetWorker stores and works with dates/times, and you have instant chaos*. In this post I want to help people who are just starting out with...
View ArticleBasics – Matching savesets with files on disk backup units
Generally speaking, you don’t want to be mucking around with the contents of your disk backup units except under extreme circumstances. In fact, I really recommend that you don’t do so unless you 100%...
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Turbocharged EMC NetWorker
A while ago, I set out to update the nsradmin micromanual I’d released originally in 2009. In short order though I realised there were a lot of other topics that I’d like to include in a comprehensive...
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NetWorker 8.2 SP2 is here
While NetWorker 9 went DA at the end of September and is seeing healthy uptake around the world, NetWorker 8.2 is still getting updates. Released a couple of weeks ago, NetWorker 8.2 SP2 includes a...
View ArticleAvamar Basics – Using Post-Scripts
Sometimes you have to think outside the box to get just the right database backup. And functions like post-scripts can help you out. The post Avamar Basics – Using Post-Scripts first appeared on Data...
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