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In regard to: 4) The ability to run multiple streams on large filesystems in any OS

+1. That feature has been desperately needed for years. The current
"split client" method works, but ...

In regard to: Is it possible that a numeric backup could still be browsable (sumflags=cb)
but none of the older instances of that save set? In other words, the
preceding incrementals are 'cr' and ...

In regard to: we have a problem with Postgres on linux doing backup with savepnpc.
OS is Redhat 5.7, networker version is 7.6.2.7.

Node is running a PostgresDB, backup goes with savepnpc. Pstclien ...

In regard to: check /nsr/index to see if there is a /nsr/index/oopsclient
Remove that directory.

That had already been done, sorry for not mentioning that in the initial
question.

When I delet ...

In regard to: Re: You can create a dummy client (first you will have to make a dummy
entry in your hosts file) and assign the client id that is currently
assigned to oops.ndsu.edu to this dummy c ...

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Is there any way to make NetWorker completely forget about a clientid? I
seem to recall doing this once or twice in the distant past, but I can't
recall what the procedure is.

Here's the ...

In regard to: Re: We haven't (yet) implemented DFS yet, but my understanding is:

I'm not a Windows guy, so I have to believe there's something going on
here that I don't understand. Why is it war ...

In regard to: Re: Why ?
For the same reason you have to explicitly list any NFS mounted
filesystem on a Unix/Linux client if you want NW to back them up, it's
not considered a 'local' filesystem by ...

In regard to: Re: You have to open up the client resource in the NetWorker administrator
GUI and in the savesets section, list out all the disks and DFS mount
points you want to back up on that clie ...

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We've been backing up Windows systems to our (previous) UNIX and now
Linux NetWorker servers for 15+ years. Our Windows admins are preparing
to roll out Windows-based file services to repla ...

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We're long-time NetWorker users, but we're brand new to NMM and we're
really having trouble coalescing all of the documentation into an
understanding of how we *should* be backing up and pre ...

In regard to: Thanks for all the help guys, regardless, i'd like to know both ends,
the easy way and the experienced way. There is always validity in
knowing multiple ways to do the same thing and ...

In regard to: My personal recommendation is NOT to rely on the NMC reports:



- They are good for statistical info over a long period of time (for instance to verify trends)
- However, their ...

In regard to: Currently we have it setup that when a backup completes or fails it
sends us an email with a summary, i'm trying to find a way to find it
via command line or wherever in the event we n ...

In regard to: Forgive my negligence, but would I be able to use this to clear out
400-500 expired tapes from the media database so we may reuse them? We
have 400-500 tapes that are all labeled and ...