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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.

Avamar 7.1 Service Pack 1 Refresh

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

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.

DD Boost with EMC Avamar

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

Avamar Integration with Data Domain

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

Avamar System default passwords

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

How to retrieve Avamar serial numbers

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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

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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

Changing Avamar Passwords

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

Avamar shutdown procedure

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