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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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NetWorker 8,0 client direct backups

Published 12 Aug 2014 Read time 1 min 47 sec(s) (3004 visits).

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

Best Practices for configuring NetWorker tape devices under

Published 29 Jul 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2705 visits).

Introduced in 2001 with NetWorker release 7.0, CDI is used to provide a generic passthrough solution across all operating systems.

EMC Data Protection Advisor Discovery of EMC NetWorker

Published 23 Jul 2014 Read time 0 sec(s) (2370 visits).

Watch this video to see how to use the EMC Data Protection Advisor Discovery Wizard to discover EMC NetWorker servers.

NetWorker Interoperability and backward compatibility

Published 4 Jul 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 23 sec(s) (3214 visits).

When upgrading to NetWorker 8.1.x you cannot revert to 7.6.x without additional steps, whereas you can revert to 8.x without an issue.

NetWorker savegrp completion query program (nsrsgrpcomp)

Published 10 Jun 2014 Read time 1 min 43 sec(s) (2531 visits).

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

NetWorker recover completion query program (nsrrecomp)

Published 10 Jun 2014 Read time 1 min 23 sec(s) (2627 visits).

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

Published 10 Jun 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) (3177 visits).

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

GLR compatible backups

Published 5 Jun 2014 Read time 15 sec(s) (3036 visits).

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

NetWorker version release changes

Published 19 May 2014 Read time 35 sec(s) (2387 visits).

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

NetWorker 8 Service and Connection ports

Updated 21 May 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 42 sec(s) (954 visits).

What is the difference between service ports and connection ports within NetWorker 8.