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A collection of system admin hints and tips, documents and articles for Legato, Solstice Backup and EMC NetWorker products in all their variants.

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Changes to the NMC database backup

Published 11 Dec 2018 Read time 1 min 48 sec(s) (2317 visits).

NetWorker 18.2 performs an NMC database backup as separate backup action in the server backup workflow, which is part of the Server Protection policy.

Changes to NetWorker and Avamar integration

Published 10 Dec 2018 Read time 3 min(s) 11 sec(s) (1536 visits).

Beginning with NetWorker 9.0, Avamar integration support is deprecated for new clients. However, older integrations continue to be supported.

Changes to NetWorker VMware Protection

Published 10 Dec 2018 Read time 3 min(s) 54 sec(s) (1341 visits).

NetWorker 9.1.x and 9.2 releases feature a vProxy appliance, or NVP, for virtual machine protection.

NetWorker Cumulative Releases (Hotfixes) no longer on FTP site

Updated 3 Aug 2018 Read time 27 sec(s) (2617 visits).

EMC have announced that all new NetWorker Cumulative releases (hotfixes) will no longer be available on the usual FTP site.

savepnpc PRE and POST commands deprecated in NetWorker 9

Published 14 Jul 2017 Read time 1 min 5 sec(s) (2892 visits).

You can customise a backups behavior by running preprocessing and postprocessing commands.

Integrating VMware with NetWorker

Updated 29 Nov 2019 Read time 12 min(s) 51 sec(s) (1168 visits).

This article provides procedures for backup and restore of virtual machines deployed on a VMware vSAN data store using EMC NetWorker 9.1, 9.2 and 18.1

Shutdown / Startup DPA

Published 16 Aug 2016 Read time 41 sec(s) (526 visits).

This article provides simple steps to shutdown and startup Networker DPA services

Troubleshooting NetWorker authorisation errors

Published 9 Oct 2015 Read time 1 min 40 sec(s) (5033 visits).

This article provides a list of possible causes and resolutions for error messages that are related to NetWorker server authorization issues.

NetWorker 9.0 Avamar integration changes

Published 9 Oct 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 12 sec(s) (2656 visits).

Beginning with NetWorker version 9.0, support for EMC Avamar integration is deprecated for new clients.

NetWorker 9.0 Media database changes

Published 9 Oct 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 12 sec(s) (2632 visits).

In 9.0, SQLlite replaces WiSS as the media database providing advantages for object caching, parallel and bootstrap compatibility.