Avamar Data Domain How To How to delete an old Data Domain after error November 23, 2022November 23, 2022V.Wolf I had an old Data Domain 2500 that was out of support, but I still used it for some old archival secondary backups until I find them a better supported…Continue readingHow to delete an old Data Domain after error
Avamar How To Easily Reset The MCUser Password On Avamar November 4, 2022November 22, 2022V.Wolf Recently I was asked by Avamar support to gather some data for a possible storage expansion. One of the first CLI commands they needed me to run was “mccli group…Continue readingEasily Reset The MCUser Password On Avamar
Avamar How To How To Prevent Avamar’s “Activities – DPN Summary” Report From Crash November 2, 2022November 2, 2022V.Wolf Okay guys I have another interesting one for you. I had been struggling for a few years now in my attempts to run an Activities – DPN Summary report on…Continue readingHow To Prevent Avamar’s “Activities – DPN Summary” Report From Crash
Avamar How To How To Recover Filesystem Backup With Stuck “Waiting-Client” October 13, 2022October 17, 2022V.Wolf Recently I had a physical server failure. I will spare you the details, but to say that this was a mini-disaster recovery. This did teach me somethings that I had…Continue readingHow To Recover Filesystem Backup With Stuck “Waiting-Client”
Avamar How To How to rollback to a checkpoint after Avamar crash August 17, 2022August 18, 2022V.Wolf We recently had a major failure in the environment outside of the systems that I am the engineer over. Because of the outage these events caused, something to happened to…Continue readingHow to rollback to a checkpoint after Avamar crash
Avamar How To VMWare How To Restore A Virtual Hard Drive Using Avamar August 9, 2022August 9, 2022V.Wolf This tutorial will be a continuation of my How to Restore A Physical Server’s Database To A VMWare Server using Avamar where I discuss restores for audit servers. In that…Continue readingHow To Restore A Virtual Hard Drive Using Avamar
Avamar How To VMWare How to Restore A Physical Server’s Database To VMWare August 4, 2022August 9, 2022V.Wolf Once a quarter companies should go through an audit process to validate that a backup of system can be restored. In most companies the most important server to validate a…Continue readingHow to Restore A Physical Server’s Database To VMWare
Avamar Data Domain How To How to do Data Domain Filesystem Cleanup On Console Session July 29, 2022July 29, 2022V.Wolf Usually we would only do a manual filesystem cleanup when we are running out of storage. We have gone in and made the tough choices of deleting old backups to…Continue readingHow to do Data Domain Filesystem Cleanup On Console Session
Avamar Data Domain How To How To Default Data Domain Storage Over Avamar Local Storage July 28, 2022July 29, 2022V.Wolf If not setup correctly in the beginning, Avamar will default to it’s own storage as primary over attached storage like a Data Domain. The issue is that as the Avamar…Continue readingHow To Default Data Domain Storage Over Avamar Local Storage
Avamar Data Domain How To Easily solve Avamar Data Integrity issue with these simple steps July 26, 2022July 29, 2022V.Wolf There will be times when you open the Avamar Graphical User Interface or GUI and see red everywhere. The first time I saw this I was freaking out inside, but…Continue readingEasily solve Avamar Data Integrity issue with these simple steps
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