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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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Managing optical drives with Solaris 9 (LGTpa48374)

Published 5 May 2007 Read time 1 min 2 sec(s) (2657 visits).

With Solaris 9, the volume Management daemon (vold) was changed so that it automatically attempts to manage all removable media devices.

Changes to NetWorker Log Files

Published 5 May 2007 Read time 1 min 23 sec(s) (2742 visits).

A number of changes have been made to log files in NetWorker release 7.4 to better accomodate internationalised message logging.

Which files do not get backed up on a windows client

Published 19 Apr 2007 Read time 26 sec(s) (3182 visits).

NetWorker uses a registry entry to keep a list of files which it will not never backup regardless of the saveset or directive that you set.

Dumping all resources into a single file

Published 18 Dec 2006 Read time 2 min(s) 32 sec(s) (2602 visits).

It's not uncommon to perform this task. In fact NetWorker does it everytime you run the NetWorker support nsr_support/nsrsup commands.

How to move a NetWorker server for Windows to another path/drive

Published 5 Dec 2005 Read time 1 min 1 sec (3193 visits).

Most likely you need to do this on Windows if you want to separate the ..\nsr directory from the current drive.

Licensing clarification for NetWare cluster clients with NetWorker

Published 7 Nov 2005 Read time 27 sec(s) (2454 visits).

There is no separate licenses for virtual cluster hosts and physical hosts. This in fact is nothing else but the old NetWorker 4.x licensing scheme.

What is LSSV?

Published 1 Aug 2005 Read time 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) (3253 visits).

This is an abbreviation for Legato Single Server Version which a special NetWorker version which is delivered with the Oracle database software.

How to rename a pool under NetWorker

Published 18 Jul 2005 Read time 1 min 23 sec(s) (3116 visits).

Pools define to which set of media the data shall be saved, it is mandatory that each pool must have different data selection criteria assigned to it.

What are NetWorker Parallel Recoveries?

Published 4 Jul 2005 Read time 1 min 0 sec(s) (3170 visits).

As the term has no exact definition it simply means reading multiple save streams at the same time but other definitions may be misread..

Configuring the firewall on a Windows XP NetWorker client

Published 11 Apr 2005 Read time 3 min(s) 24 sec(s) (2551 visits).

The installation of Window XP SP2 installs a new version of ICF (Internet Connection Firewall) which breaks the running NetWorker environment.