Basics – Updates vs Upgrades
After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be more precise, mainly use the term ‘upgrade’). However, there is, and always has been,...
View ArticleWait! Don’t apply that service pack!
Recently we’re seeing a lot of people upgrading to Windows 2008 SP2, without first checking to see that release notes and compatibility guides state that NetWorker doesn’t yet support this release. I...
View ArticleGet off 7.2 and 7.3
On the NetWorker Mailing List, I still frequently see a lot of posts from people who are having various problems with their NetWorker 7.2.x servers. It’s time to move away from 7.2. I know, it was the...
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Why upgrade clients?
The Question It’s usually the case that the biggest part of a NetWorker environment – in terms of resources that are configured, and software deployed, are the clients themselves. When sites look at...
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5 rules for upgrading NetWorker
So a new version of NetWorker has come out, or is coming out, and it’s been decided that you’re going to upgrade, but you want a few tips for making that upgrade as painless as possible. Here’s my 5...
View ArticleA very blue upgrade
I recently encountered one of those has-to-be-environmental errors that turned out to be a NetWorker issue. You know the one: the situation being explained is so straight-forward that there’s no chance...
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What’s new in 8.2?
NetWorker 8.2 entered Directed Availability (DA) status a couple of weeks ago. Between finishing up one job and looking for a new one, I’d been a bit too busy to blog about 8.2 until now, so here goes…...
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Upgrade times
We live in a world of activities. Particularly in IT, almost everything we do can at some point be summarised as being an activity. Activities we perform typically fall into one of three organisational...
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NetWorker 9.0 SP1
NetWorker 9.0 SP1 (aka “9.0.1”) was released at the end of June. I meant to blog about it pretty much as soon as it came out, but the Australian Federal election distracted me last weekend, and then on...
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Summer Fresh NetWorker 9.1
I know, I know, it’s winter up there in the Northern Hemisphere, but NetWorker 9.1 is landing and given I’m in Australia, that makes NetWorker 9.1 a Summer Fresh release. (In fact, my local pub for the...
View ArticleWhat’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1?
NetWorker 9.2.1 has just been released, and the engineering and product management teams have delivered a great collection of features, in addition to the usual roll-up of prior cumulative patch...
View ArticlePowerProtect Data Manager 19.2
It’s been a busy few weeks for Dell EMC on Data Protection product releases – you’d have thought the new PowerProtect Data Domain systems with hardware accelerated compression would be enough for the...
View ArticleYou want easy upgrades? Check out PowerProtect Data Manager
PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) 19.2 came out a couple of weeks ago, and last week I blogged about some of the new features in it. I did that blog while I was in Singapore for some training, and...
View ArticleSay Hello to PowerProtect Data Manager 19.4
We’ve just had our long, long weekend in Australia. Back in the days of tape libraries, there used to be a golden rule for working out the absolute minimum number of slots you needed in a library: it...
View ArticleData Protection Software 19.3 – What’s New?
Last week saw the release of version 19.3 of Dell Data Protection Software – Avamar, NetWorker, Data Protection Advisor and Data Protection Central. Over the coming weeks I’ll provide some more...
View ArticleWhat’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5?
Last week saw the release of PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) 19.5. That’s the fifth release of PPDM since its inception, and the second for 2020. There’s a raft of new features and updated to PPDM in...
View ArticleNetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI
NetWorker 19.3 introduced the option to redeploy VMware image-based backup proxies via the NWUI interface. Previously that functionality had been… The post NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using...
View ArticlePowerProtect Data Manager 19.12
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 is now out, and in this post I’ll take you through some of the new features…
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