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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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MMRECOV Quick Reference Guide

Published 6 Feb 2001 Read time 2 min(s) 10 sec(s) (2522 visits).

mmrecov is used in recovering from the loss of a NetWorker servers critical files. mmrecov restores the media index and the resource files

MMINFO Quick Reference Guide

Published 4 Feb 2001 Read time 2 min(s) 45 sec(s) (2958 visits).

The mminfo command reports information about NetWorker media and save sets and can produce several different reports depending on the flags specified.

The 8 most commonly used NetWorker commands

Updated 30 Jan 2001 Read time 2 min(s) 15 sec(s) (2229 visits).

This short article provides a list of the eight most commonly used NetWorker commands.

Reducing the size of the indexes by removing the oldest save sets

Published 4 Jan 2001 Read time 3 min(s) 3 sec(s) (3234 visits).

This procedure addresses how to reduce the index size by removing the oldest full save set and its dependencies.

Resolving NetWorker media database corruption

Published 4 Jan 2001 Read time 1 min 30 sec(s) (2914 visits).

The scope of this post is to provide a procedure resolving a common issue whereby NetWorker does not recycle tapes due to index corruption.

Setting up email notifications on a NetWorker Server (Windows) using blat

Updated 29 Nov 2000 Read time 2 min(s) 4 sec(s) (4427 visits).

This article shows you how to configure NetWorker servers for Windows to use blat console based binary for sending email notifcations.

Manually pruning NetWorker indexes

Published 29 Jul 2000 Read time 1 min 34 sec(s) (3495 visits).

nsrim be default is executed by nsrd after a savegrp completes it's cycle.

Solstice Backup Server Recovery (pre 6.x)

Published 29 Oct 1999 Read time 2 min(s) 24 sec(s) (3172 visits).

A procedure to recovering from the loss or corruption of a Solstice Backup servers critical files including the index, media index, and resource files

How to download EMC NetWorker cumulative hotfixes

Updated 1 Jul 2003 Read time 13 sec(s) (2676 visits).

Cumulative hotfixes are periodically issued. They combine various individual hotfixes that might have an impact on customer production environments

Listing files in a NetWorker saveset

Published 4 Jan 1999 Read time 1 min 24 sec(s) (2872 visits).

At first glance the answer this is not straight forward, but the answer is quite simple; Using two commands mminfo and nsrinfo we get the results.