Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem
“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. — I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude.” Jane Austin: Pride and...
View ArticleBasics – Compatibility Guide
Regardless of whether you’re new to NetWorker or have been using it for a long time, if there’s any change happening within the overall computing environment of your business, there’s one thing you...
View ArticleBasics – Prior Recovery Details
If you need to find out details about what has recently been recovered with a NetWorker server, there’s a few different ways to achieve it. NMC, of course, offers recovery reports. These are...
View ArticleBasics – What’s a virtual synthetic full?
When NetWorker and Data Domain are working together, some operations can be done as a virtual synthetic full. It sounds like a tautology – virtual synthetic. In this basics post, I want to explain the...
View ArticleBasics – Handling Upgrades Through Data Domain Management Center
As I mentioned in an earlier post, there’s been a raft of updates in July, including updates for the Data Domain Operating System (DDOS) and Data Domain Management Center (DDMC). Customers who are...
View ArticleBasics – Getting started with BoostFS
Intro One of the things I’m keen to try in NetWorker 18.1 is the new Orchestrated Application Protection (OAP) feature of NMDA, but in order to get to the point of testing that, I had to first do some...
View Article10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes
Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How old is your media? So that means this blog is now ten years old. In blog years, that...
View ArticleBasics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files
You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing database or going to another database. Sometimes, you might want to ship the recovered...
View ArticleBasics – Getting NetWorker Client Details
A question that comes up regularly is “how do I find out the NetWorker version and other details for my clients?” If you turn on diagnostic mode in NMC, you can get some of these details, but it’s also...
View ArticleNetWorker Architecture Basics
If you’re approaching NetWorker for the very first time, it might seem a little intimidating. There are a lot of user manuals for NetWorker, and being a true enterprise backup product, it does have a...
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