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 8,0 client direct backups

The ability for client backups to bypass the Storage Node and write directly to Data Domain eliminates a bottleneck during backups.

NetWorker recover completion query program (nsrrecomp)

The nsrreccomp command is used to query the NetWorker server jobs database and the recover log files in order to display a recover completion report.

NetWorker Startup variables with nsrrc

Starting with NetWorker 8.0, NetWorker uses the /nsr/nsrrc file to define environment variables at NetWorker startup.

GLR compatible backups

Only VSS-based full backups are GLR-compatible. No additional configuration is required for GLR-compatible backups.

NetWorker version release changes

Starting with EMC NetWorker 8.2 both NetWorker server/client and all EMC NetWorker modules will have matching version numbers.