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Hi folks,

We need some help with this one. We upgraded from v7.4.4 to v7.6.1.5 yesterday. Everything went well with testing during the day. The first two groups of clients during our production ...

Investigate FalconStor. We just started using their VTL with SIR (single instance repository). We purchased the VTL as software and put it on a server and storage of our choice. Dedupe is global an ...

So, when you order media (LTO4 in our case), what do you order? By price? Do you follow brand recommendations provided by your library vendor? Do you purchase vendor certified media? What brands d ...

I was under the impression that the server parallelism was a hard maximum. I'm looking at the Activity Gantt Charts in nsr_reporter. When I look at activity by pool, it seems to be telling me that t ...

We use groups to meet two requirements:
- backups windows
- differing retention times (group name forces pool selection)

Since we've started using NMM, we've also needed to create groups specif ...

We're testing our new backup environment which is a primary VTL replicated to a secondary VTL. As part of the testing, we want to walk through a DR scenario where the primary VTL is unavailable. Unf ...

I'm looking into possibilities for some new schedules in NetWorker and was wondering - has anyone figured out a way to define an "every other week" kind of schedule? I'd like to do full bac ...

The article says:

We have also been working with several backup partners to integrate VADP into their solutions to make backup of vSphere Virtual Machines fast, efficient and easy to deploy compare ...

How about FalconStor? You can buy their product as software and install it on the server/storage of your choice (within their supported system list).

-T

Teresa Biehler
Information and Technolo ...

Security may not be the only factor when determining whether a software
package is enterprise ready, but for a backup product, it should be very
high on the list. The backup server essentially has ...

So, for example, I need to give my Exchange admins access to all my
other backups?!?! That's ridiculous! Someone PLEASE tell me I'm
misunderstanding this thread.

Teresa Biehler
Information an ...

We added a storage node because the bottleneck was the NW server but not
just network-wise. We saw one CPU going to 100% usage even if overall
the CPUs are not busy. Adding a storage node helped w ...

Hi everyone,



We (RIT) are in the process of replacing some hardware in our backup
environment. I'm looking for folks that have done a similar project who
would be willing to talk/email with ...

Has anyone installed/used a NW server that is installed on a Solaris 10
non-global zone? I'd like to set up a test environment on a local zone,
but according to the compatibility matrix, only the c ...

We're trying to set up a test environment and would like to use some
production clients as part of our test. We do not, of course, want to
cause a problem with the production client's backups.

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