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Avamar 7.1 Service Pack 1 Refresh

Updated 5 Mar 2015 Read time 19 sec(s) (2231 visits).

EMC today released of Avamar 7.1 SP1. This refresh is a maintenance release with critical fixes for previously reported issues

Updated 17 Dec 2014 Read time 49 sec(s) (2495 visits).

This article describes how to identify the state of each disk drive in the Data Domain system using the command line interface (CLI).

Updated 11 Jun 2014 Read time 1 min 34 sec(s) (2930 visits).

How to isolate the cause for the issue and identify the solution whilst connecting to the data domain system over a network.

Updated 28 Oct 2014 Read time 1 min 51 sec(s) (1391 visits).

This is a simple article that provides the command-line steps needed to manually reclaim space on a Data Domain system.

Updated 12 Jun 2014 Read time 47 sec(s) (2292 visits).

Creating an avamar schedule for your backup policies is a must for any systems administrator. This post shows you how to step-by-step.

Updated 10 Jun 2014 Read time 32 sec(s) (2996 visits).

Avamar events can be quite tedious to acknowledge when you have a large number appearing in the GUI. This one-liner tip will acnowledge all events.

Updated 23 Apr 2014 Read time 17 sec(s) (4145 visits).

Ever needed to kill a bunch of backup sessions on your Avamar system? simply follow these instructions

Updated 24 Mar 2014 Read time 59 sec(s) (4907 visits).

Here's a quick procedure to replace a failed disk drive in Data Domain.

Updated 24 Mar 2014 Read time 21 sec(s) (3213 visits).

Here's a quick procedure to proactively fail a disk in Data Domain

Updated 22 Mar 2014 Read time 3 min(s) 52 sec(s) (10451 visits).

The scope of this post is to share a how to like procedure aimed at the shutdown and startup of Avamar system.