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Creating Avamar backup schedules from CLI

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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

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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

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

LVM Logical Volumes

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

LVM Volume Groups

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A volume group (vg) is an abstraction layer between block devices and logical volumes. The commands used to manage a volume group start with vg

LVM Physical Volumes

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A physical volume (pv) is any block device (a disk, a partition, a RAID device, an iSCSI device, etc.)

NetWorker version release changes

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