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Changes to NetWorker and Avamar integration

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Beginning with NetWorker 9.0, Avamar integration support is deprecated for new clients. However, older integrations continue to be supported.

NetWorker 9.0 Avamar integration changes

Updated   Read time 2 min(s) 12 sec(s)   (2524 visits).

Beginning with NetWorker version 9.0, support for EMC Avamar integration is deprecated for new clients.

Changing Avamar Passwords

Updated   Read time 46 sec(s)   (5022 visits).

Changing only the passwords for the operating system users does not sufficiently prevent someone from logging in to Avamar server nodes.

DD Boost with EMC Avamar

Updated   Read time 1 min 21 sec(s)   (2420 visits).

Backup data is sent directly from the client to the Data Domain system using DDBoost technology to provide faster backup and recovery.

NetWorker and Avamar Integration Overview

Updated   Read time 4 min(s) 12 sec(s)   (2315 visits).

This new storage node is used for dedupe operations and leverages Avamar data de-duplication technology

Avamar shutdown procedure

Updated   Read time 2 min(s) 17 sec(s)   (2657 visits).

This post provides a quick guide to the steps needed to shutdown an Avamar system.

Avamar 7.1 Service Pack 1 Refresh

Updated   Read time 19 sec(s)   (2233 visits).

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

Avamar Integration with Data Domain

Updated   Read time 2 min(s) 9 sec(s)   (3064 visits).

Benefits of integrating an Avamar system with Data Domain on the backend would be a flexible architecture and lots of plugins for applications

Creating Avamar backup schedules from CLI

Updated   Read time 47 sec(s)   (2294 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

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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.

How to retrieve Avamar serial numbers

Updated   Read time 1 min 14 sec(s)   (4584 visits).

The methods listed in this article are for obtaining the serial numbers from Avamar DataStore Gen2, Gen3 and Gen4 hardware

How to retrieve an Avamar system id

Updated   Read time 33 sec(s)   (4611 visits).

To retrieve an Avamar system id, you must login as either the root user or admin on your Avamar utility node, and execute the mccli command

Avamar System default passwords

Updated   Read time 48 sec(s)   (7300 visits).

This article provides a list of default passwords for an Avamar grid. If you have not already, consider changing the defaults for security reasons.

Killing multiple Avamar backup sessions

Updated   Read time 17 sec(s)   (4150 visits).

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