My Wish List for NetWorker Virtualization Support

For some time now there have been a number of changes I’ve wanted to see in NetWorker to better support customers with VMware.
Over at nsrd.wordpress.com, Preston de Guise has done a wish list for NetWorker features he hopes to see in 2010 and while we both blog about NetWorker Prestons blog is far superior in terms of NetWorker content, my NetWorker posts [...]

EMC NetWorker 7.6 Virtualization Features

Myself and colleague Preston de Guise recently performed beta testing for the latest build of EMC NetWorker, I can only speak for my self but I was quite surprised by the  lack of regressed bugs I found and overall it’s looking very good.
I was also hoping  NetWorker 7.6 was going to show that product development teams were [...]

Getting EMC NetWorker VCB exports to stay on disk

If you’ve been using EMC NetWorker to perfrom VCB exports then you’ll know that after the VCB export has been backed up from the holding tank to Disk or Tape, it is then removed from the VCB holding tank.
I had a request from a customer this week “We want to be able to use NetWorker [...]

NetWorker 7.5.1 new VCB recovery feature

Last week NetWorker 7.5.1 was released on PowerLink, after downloading the package I decided to look through the release notes. Now its safe to say anything to do with VMware and NetWorker interests me so when I saw “Performing A single step recovery of the full virtual machine” I went straight to page 126. If you [...]

NSRADMIN is your Friend

One of the nice features of the Worpress blog is you can see what searches people are using to find your site which is something I keep an eye on in case there’s any good ideas for future posts.
Now on the other hand you can also leave a comment on any of the posts like Vijaysys did.
Hi
Howis it [...]

Getting MMINFO output into Excel

For those of you who are familiar with MMINFO you’ll know how powerful it is and how much information you can get from the media database. Some people like to use the built in reporting functionality built into Networker NMC but personally I find it unreliable and more times that not I find the numbers [...]

Dont remove clients from Groups

Something I see on a regular basis is customers having  issues with a particular client backing up and to stop the group from failing  they tend to remove the client from the group. Often the failure can be something as simple as the machine was rebuilt and the Networker client hasnt been instaled yet.
Now if you remove the [...]

So you dont like your logs RAW

Well Ive had a couple of people ask me over the last few days about Networker log files. For those of you who have moved to a 7.4.x system you will have noticed the daemon.log file has been superseeded by a new daemon.raw log file which in my opinion brings alot of nice features when the [...]

Know your client ID’s

 
 
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 [...]

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 [...]