Basics – Important mminfo fields
Most NetWorker administrators with even a passing familiarity of mminfo will be aware of the “savetime” field, which reports when a saveset was created (i.e., when the backup was taken). There are...
View ArticleTop 5 Reflections
So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular posts thus far. I can’t say any of the results surprised me. Every single one of the top 5 comes...
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Preventing users seeing backups from other hosts
Something I’ve seen a few people complain about – and indeed that I’ve also complained about in the past, is that in high security environments, NetWorker allows end users on one host to be able to see...
View ArticleValidcopies hazardous to your sanity
While much of NetWorker 7.6’s enhancements have been surrounding updates to virtualisation or (urgh) cloud, there remains a bunch of smaller updates that are of interest. One of those new features is...
View ArticleThe top 10 for 2009
Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top 10 read articles on The NetWorker Blog for 2009. The top 3 of course match the three articles that...
View ArticleSaveset sizes from 32-bit Windows
There’s currently a bug within NetWorker whereby if you’re using a 32-bit Windows client that has a filesystem large enough such that the savesets generated are larger than 2TB, you’ll get a massively...
View ArticleNetWorker and Incremental Manual Backups
There was a recent posting on the NetWorker mailing list regarding manual backups and whether they’re incrementals or not. The short answer of course is they’re not. The more challenging answer is...
View Articlemminfo and NOT queries
A question that’s just come up on the NetWorker mailing list again (it’s a periodic one) is, “how do I query mminfo to return all savesets that don’t belong to a particular group?” or “how do I return...
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mminfo2html
I’ve started working on a new eBook, Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, aimed squarely at NetWorker administrators who want to get more out of the product from the command line. It’s not designed to be a...
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Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups
If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and seen output looking like the following: As you can see, that’s not the most...
View ArticleBasics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies
A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”… The post Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies first appeared on Data...
View ArticleBasics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup Details
When you perform an agent-based backup, mminfo will give you a saveset-by-saveset breakdown of what was protected. For filesystem backups,… The post Basics: Diving into NetWorker Virtual Machine Backup...
View ArticleBasics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime...
When you’re using NetWorker on the command line, one of the tools you’ll use most regularly is the mminfo command.… The post Basics – Using Column Widths in mminfo to view times and dates for savetime...
View ArticleCrunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats
If you use NetWorker with Data Domain, you’ve probably sometimes wanted to know which of your clients have the best… The post Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats first appeared on Data Protection Hub.
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