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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Potential causes for NetWorker client alias problems

Use nwadmin or nsradmin to edit the client resource for clients with this problem. Add all network names for this host to the Aliases attribute.

Resolving NetWorker Archive and Retrieve issues

This post simply provides a method on how to troubleshoot various problems you may encounter with Legato NetWorker archive and retrieve.

Legato NetWorker diagnostic tools

Legato NetWorker includes a script called nsr_support that generates an exhaustive diagnostic report.

NetWorker performance

Several factors into performance calculations, including CPU speed, data storage devices, network limitations, and the volume of network traffic

Using nsr_shutdown to stop a NetWorker server

Use nsr_shutdown to stop NetWorker services intelligently. By default nsr_shutdown will stop all NetWorker services running on a host.

Which volumes are required for a NetWorker restore?

This post provides a method of listing which volumes are required to perform a NetWorker restore/recovery via command-line and via the recovery GUI.