I’ve come across a number of cases recently where a great deal of confusion has come about due to clients being renamed, clients being recreated after having been deleted, clients being copied from the NMC and people forgetting to blank out the client ID to allow Networker to recreate a unique “clientid”
For those of you [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 20, 2009
Know your client ID’s
February 19, 2009
Networker 7.5 VCB client configuration
Something that’s been lacking from the Networker Management Console pre 7.5 was the ability to create VCB clients via the configuration wizard, well 7.5 now has this built in !
Ive taken some screen shots and below ill take you through the configuration wizard to show just how easy it is.
Step1. Open Networker management console, click on [...]
February 18, 2009
Celerra storage rescan error
Today I was finishing off some of the storage tasks I had set my self when I come across the same problem I noticed on the NS20 I installed a couple of months ago, only the error was different so I thought id write up a post in case anyone came across the same problem.
Here’s the scenario……
You create [...]
February 16, 2009
** EMC Networker ** Changing the Browse/Retention times on multiple savesets
I was thinking just the other day that I would do a post on browse and retention of savesets but Preston beat me to it with this great post here which covers changing the browse and retention times on savesets. Soooooooo I thought I would do something along the same lines but slightly different.
Just the other [...]
February 14, 2009
7.5 Update enabler required
If youve been running a Networker 7.3.x or Networker 7.4.x server and your looking to move to the latest 7.5 build, dont forget to request a 7.5 update enabler before the upgrade as youll find everything stops working without it.
The actual enabler doesnt cost anything, I beleive its just EMC’s way of tracking the number of [...]
February 14, 2009
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Released
This was just released a couple of days ago. Ive had a quick look through the release notes and I cant wait to give the P2V of a Linux machine ago.
Whats new I hear you ask………
Physical to virtual machine conversion support for Linux (RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu) as source
Physical to virtual machine conversion support for [...]
February 11, 2009
New Networker 7.5 features
Now I think ill update this post every couple of days with a quick outline of each new feature that Networker 7.5 has introduced, since my main area of interest is virtualization so ill start with the new “Virtualization” tab in the networker configuration menu.
Virtualization
Configuration is easy, right click…Enable auto discovery…configure the identity of the VC [...]
February 10, 2009
Unix tools for a Windows backup server
The other night I was up writing a small script to query Networker for each client id and send an email displaying unique output only.
Now the trouble here is I was missing all the commands I use regularly on my linux boxes e.g. cat, grep, ls, uniq, diff, sort (well windows has sort but does not support [...]
February 10, 2009
IDATA Networker Training
IDATA Resolutions will be running a NetWorker 7.x training course in Auckland on the 22-23 of April.
This is will be run by one of IDATA’s senior engineers, lab equipment will be provided.
The topics covered are;
Management Overview
¬ Why Backup
¬ Importance of recovery
¬ Role of backups in achieving high availability
General Backup Theory
¬ Covers theory relating [...]
February 6, 2009
Monitoring client index size
Ok so over the last few years of being a Networker support engineer Ive seen my fair share of people ring up because they are unable to recover data from a machine they thought was being backed up but for some reason or another it was not.
Something I personally think Networker should have built in is [...]
