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The ASR recoveries work rather well - as long as you're restoring to an EXACTLY alike server. Same hostname, hardware, everything. If anything is different you pretty much have to go the whole rebui ...

How can you do differential on SQL databases? I thought a MSSQL: backup
was *always* forced to FULL, even if you set it to incremental. I tried
setting one of my jobs that does a SQL DB backup t ...

Question for ya... if I read this right:

* client.domain.com:All rcmd client.domain.com, user root: `savefs -s server.domain.com -c client.domain.com -g Laptops -p -l full -R -v'

This means it' ...

No, I backed up a bunch of Win2003 clusters with 7.3.2 with no problems. Does the backup fail for C: or just not run or hang or..?

That being said, 7.3.2 was a huge steaming pile of poo. 7.3.3 fi ...

I've seen that before when there's a mismatch between the Networker client architecture and Windows. i.e. The Networker x86 client installed on a Windows x64 box.

Cool! I didn't know that about the GNU date command (obviously, by looking at my script. haha!) Thanks for sharing that, I'll definitely use the heck out of that in the future!

Okay, I ended up writing a script to create an nsradmin input file to change the save set directory daily before it runs. The first half of it is a "determine yesterday's date" script I fou ...

Not sure if this is your problem, but:

I've found on our 7.3.3 setup that if you try to stage more than 25 savesets at a time - either with nsrstage using "-f filename.txt" or multiple &q ...

Okay, I have a Windows based security DVR that I need to do a full backup on daily - that way you only need the one tape to restore the whole thing. It saves the camera footage in the format: D:\data ...

As soon as I stop and start the services it recognizes all of the drives and everything is good, so I would think that discounts any OS or hardware issue. Also licensing is done by the number of slot ...

Or you could just create an nsr.dir (or .nsr) file on the removable drive, something like:

<< "\">
+skip:*
<< "\Final">
forget

And along the same line of ...

No I actually have 11 drives so for some reason one of them doesn't show as "active".

I tried ejecting the tape with the sjimm command (or the library gui) and reinventorying but it won't ...

Nope, no hung nsrjb processes. I've tried manually loading the tape into the drive that it thinks is in there there and doing another inventory but no luck. Still shows the device is not idle error ...

Unfortunately that didn't work:

C:\>nsrjb -HH -Ep -v -j ADIC < at > 6.0.1
setting verbosity level to `1'
nsrjb: Error: Cannot allocate `11' devices for this operation: max active devices for j ...

We're using 7.3.3 (Windows x86, unfortunately) and every once in a while I will see this happen. In the GUI Monitoring - Devices tab it shows a tape loaded into the drive. In the Devices button is s ...