NetWorker

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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.

DB2 schedule backup failing with Vendor error: rc = 25 returned from function sqluvput due DD to timeout

This article provides general best practice steps to prepare NetWorker for a Data Domain IP address change.

Domino LOTUS backups performed through the NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications (NMDA) fail to initialize a domino session with error code 272.

NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications (NMDA) backup of DB2 Database including log files was previously successful, then started failing constantly with no changes that are made to configuration.

NMSAP for SAP Hana is unable to establish direct save session with Data Domain device.

Block Based Backup (BBB) from a Windows cluster client fails to restore or mount. You are not authorized to use the '-S SSID' save set recover or '-A text' annotation key recover.

Error: nsrmedisv(6448): Error: SYMM_SNAP_TECH is not found in application information.

Using SQL VDI backup method, one can backup SQL Server-Mirrored databases. This is true for traditional NMSQL module and current NMM Module using SQL VDI backup method.

NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications (NMDA) Oracle backups are slow over InfiniBand network.

NMDA: Oracle backup fails with ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ipc_recreate_que_2], [1], [0]

SAP Backups fail due to improper client definition

NetWorker VMware Protection (NVP) vProxy appliance registration fails with a general HTTP 500 error. The vProxy and NetWorker server can communicate successfully over port 9090. SSL connection testing shows that the communication fails to establish a TLS handshake due to the usage of TLSv1.0. The error seen is SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert protocol version.

SAP Hana database backup would fail at the log backup.

This article describes how to handle this error when encountered in a NetWorker tape environment.

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.

How to move a Client File Index to an alternate location. How to change a Client File Index location for an existing client.

This article is to help identify errors which originate outside of, but are passed by applications.

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.