A repository of information technology questions and answers

Latest posts

Reclaiming Data Domain Space

1 minute read    2137 visits.

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

NetWorker Startup variables with nsrrc

2 minute read    3497 visits.

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

Creating Avamar backup schedules from CLI

1 minute read    2686 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.

Viewing and acknowledging Avamar events via CLI

1 minute read    3420 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.

GLR compatible backups

1 minute read    3227 visits.

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

LVM Logical Volumes

3 minute read    3479 visits.

The use of logical volumes is similar to the use of partitions and is accomplished with the same standard commands (mkfs, mount, fsck, df, ...)