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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NetWorker Inactive Files feature

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This may prove useful when deciding what data needs to be backed up and how often and which data could be considered for archiving.

Overwriting EDM tapes with NetWorker

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Unfortunately, this feature has been implemented in such a away that will prevent you from overwriting EDM media with a NetWorker label in general.

How to completely remove a NetWorker client

Published   Read time 4 min(s) 8 sec(s)   (3357 visits).

A word of caution: before you begin removing a client, make sure you have a recent bootstrap backup; If we make any mistakes we can easily recover

NetWorker Management Console debug settings

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irst set the debug level to display output for analysis. This can be done at the command line level or from within the GUI.

NetWorker probe based backups

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The processing of probe based backups occurs through a probe based backup group instead of the regular scheduled backup.

NetWorker License Conformance Report

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The license conformance summary is a new feature in NetWorker Management Console that simply reports the current NetWorker licensing inventory.

NetWorker lockbox password management

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NetWorker 7.5 provides a lockbox service that allows NetWorker application modules to securely store and retrieve passwords over the network.

Changing a NetWorker device mode to Service

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With the new NetWorker Managemenet Console (NMC) under 7.3 you can only toggle a device as enables or disabled, service mode is no longer available.

How to allocate NetWorker licenses to another client

Published   Read time 1 min 0 sec(s)   (2530 visits).

NetWorker allocates licenses to hosts as needed. However they are not removed from clients when decommissioned or removed from an active group.