NetWorker

NetWorker 19.2 introduces the ability to reduce the disk space being used by NetWorker's Client File Index metadata by reducing the browse time of certain save sets and thus causing their index entries to be removed earlier than the retention time for that save set.

Unable to log in to NetWorker Web User Interface (NWUI) launched from the NetWorker server. "Failed to authenticate user administrator with the provided password on Authentication Server <server name>

This article is a general article to assist with options for getting files on or off Linux NetWorker servers including the NetWorker Virtual Edition (NVE) appliance. This article contains basic instructions for using Secure Copy Protocol (SCP), NetWorker FLR, NFS, SMB, Mountable ISO files, and VMware PowerCLI.

The NetWorker Virtual Machines (VM) restores of the Windows AD domain controller does not increment the msDS-GenerationId, which can cause an Update Sequence Number (USN) rollback.

Manual clone operations initiated from a Save Sets query in the Media tab fails, even though sufficient destination volumes are available and scheduled clone operations to the same pool complete successfully.

Backups to a newly configured Data Domain system fail with a "Too many save streams" error. The issue occurs because the Max Write Streams and other related Data Domain attributes are not populated in the NSR Data Domain resource when it is created using the local backup server as the storage node. As a result, NetWorker assumes the maximum write streams value as zero and blocks backup operations.

NetWorker administration commands return "Authentication library error." The server's daemon log reports "Security token has expired"

NetWorker Module for Microsoft (NMM) plugin in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) becomes unresponsive while performing some SQL restores.

During a File Level Recover (FLR) of a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) protected with the NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) vProxy appliance. The FLR mount fails, stating that the FLR agent is not installed and the virtual machine does not allow installation. The process returns exit code 1625.

NetWorker: Cloning stalls or unreliable since upgrading to v9.1 and uses more memory.

Adding a new client or backing up an existing client fails with "A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time." This error is reproducible during any connection issue between the NetWorker processes on two separate hosts.

Backups from vProxy are only trying to run on HotAdd even setting them exclusively to NBD and reporting the error message: "Error backup NSR Vmware Proxy is not available for datastore (XXXX) using mode "hotadd" in center "vcenter.domain.com""

NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) Virtual Machine (VM) backups fail, reporting an error disabling storage migration.

This article describes a well-known problem with Tape Libraries in a SAN environment which leads to device names being changed by the operating system, leading to application failures.

Unable to register NSR VMware proxy 'vproxyname.local': vProxy in unstable state, method not allowed

RPS stands for “Recover pipe to save”. This is a new feature that was introduced in networker version 9.0.Enabling RPS will clone multiple save sets in parallel. Networker is not able to clone the VM savesets.

Backup succeeds but gets marked as failed in NMC. The failure message indicates: Error: 'Warning-'' size grew during save'.

NetWorker client backups fail, reporting pseudo_saveset aborted, inactivity timeout has been reached.

DD Boost device is Marked as suspect, which result in backups not progressing. And Mounting and Unmounting operation for the device fails.

This Knowledge Base article provides a standardized triage checklist for diagnosing and resolving NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications (NMDA) - MySQL backup and restore issues.

BMR fails displays error x:Program FilesEMC NetWorkernsrtmpOSSR_Info.xml

This article explains how to calculate source capacity.

Whenever an upgrade of an existing NetWorker installation is performed, services failed to start and we get the above error message.

This article outlines how to collect vProxy support bundles, NetWorker logs for VMware Protection, and logs needed when a vProxy system crash occurs.

Deploy the vProxy appliance from the vCenter server or the ESXi host. This article provides steps on how to Deploy the vProxy OVA on an ESXi host.

This article discusses how best to use the NSRGet utility to expedite NetWorker troubleshooting.

How to use nsr_render_log to collect logs.

NMC - problems with refreshing vCenter information in NW 9.1

Changing the log level to 'debug' may be necessary in order to troubleshoot an issue with NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) with vProxy Appliance solution (NVP-vProxy). This article explains how to change the log level.

Utility provides an automated, efficient, and human-readable way to perform first-step or basic self-diagnostic for vProxy appliance.