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1 dell EMC NetWorkerVersion Reference GuideRev 01 November 2019 Copyright 1990-2019 dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. All rights believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED AS-IS. dell MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KINDWITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OFMERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. USE, COPYING, AND DISTRIBUTION OF ANY dell SOFTWARE DESCRIBEDIN THIS PUBLICATION REQUIRES AN APPLICABLE SOFTWARE Technologies , dell , EMC, dell EMC and other trademarks are trademarks of dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other trademarks may be the propertyof their respective owners. Published in the EMCH opkinton, Massachusetts 01748-91031-508-435-1000 In North America EMC networker Command Reference GuidePrefaceAs part of an effort to improve product lines, periodic revisions of software and hardware arereleased.

2 Therefore, all versions of the software or hardware currently in use might not supportsome functions that are described in this document. The product release notes provide the mostup-to-date information on product a product does not function correctly or does not function as described in this document,contact a technical support : This document was accurate at publication time. To ensure that you are using the latestversion of this document, go to the Support website document contains information about networker Command document is intended for use by system historyThe following table presents the revision history of this 1 Revision historyRevisionDateDescription01 November 15, 2019 First release of this document for networker documentationThe networker documentation set includes the following publications, available on the Supportwebsite:lNetWorker E-LAB NavigatorProvides compatibility information, including specific software and hardware configurationsthat networker supports.

3 To access E-LAB Navigator, go to Administration GuideDescribes how to configure and maintain the networker Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) User GuideDescribes how to use the networker software to provide data protection for NDMP Cluster Integration GuideContains information related to configuring networker software on cluster servers and Installation GuideProvides information on how to install, uninstall, and update the networker software forclients, storage nodes, and servers on all supported operating Updating from a Previous Release GuideDescribes how to update the networker software from a previously installed Release NotesContains information on new features and changes, fixed problems, known limitations,environment and system requirements for the latest networker software EMC networker Command Reference Guide3lNetWorker Command Reference GuideProvides Reference information for networker commands and Data Domain Boost Integration GuideProvides planning and configuration information on the use of Data Domain devices for datadeduplication backup and storage in a networker Performance Optimization Planning GuideContains basic performance tuning information for Server Disaster Recovery and Availability Best Practices GuideDescribes how to design, plan for.

4 And perform a step-by-step networker disaster Snapshot Management Integration GuideDescribes the ability to catalog and manage snapshot copies of production data that arecreated by using mirror Technologies on storage Management for NAS Devices Integration GuideDescribes how to catalog and manage snapshot copies of production data that are created byusing replication Technologies on NAS Security Configuration GuideProvides an overview of security configuration settings available in networker , securedeployment, and physical security controls needed to ensure the secure operation of VMware Integration GuideProvides planning and configuration information on the use of VMware in a Error Message GuideProvides information on common networker error Licensing GuideProvides information about licensing networker products and REST API Getting Started GuideDescribes how to configure and use the networker REST API to create programmaticinterfaces to the networker REST API Reference GuideProvides the networker REST API specification used to create programmatic interfaces to theNetWorker with CloudBoost Integration GuideDescribes the integration of networker with with CloudBoost Configuration GuideProvides an overview of security configuration settings available in networker and CloudBoost, secure deployment.

5 And physical security controls needed to ensure the secureoperation of the Management Console Online HelpDescribes the day-to-day administration tasks performed in the networker ManagementConsole and the networker Administration window. To view the online help, click Help in themain User Online HelpDescribes how to use the networker User program, which is the Windows client interface, toconnect to a networker server to back up, recover, archive, and retrieve files over a : References to Data Domain systems in this documentation, in the UI, and elsewhere inthe product include PowerProtect DD systems and older Data Domain help for commandsHelp for commands is also available from the Command EMC networker Command Reference GuidelThe information available in this document is also available from the Command line for anyplatform except Windows. To access this help from the Command line, type mancommand_name, for example:man recoverNote: The optional package, LGTOman must be installed to access help using the mancommand.

6 The operating system path environment variable must also include the locationof the man pages, otherwise, you must run the man Command from the installed location ofthe man pageslTo access basic help for any networker Command on any platform, type command_name -helpfrom the Command line, for example:recover -helpNote: Basic help is limited to a list of the Command s arguments, options, and complete information is contained in this notice conventions that are used in this documentThe following conventions are used for special notices:NOTICE Identifies content that warns of potential business or data : Contains information that is incidental, but not essential, to the conventionsThe following type style conventions are used in this document:Table 2 Style conventionsBoldUsed for interface elements that a user specifically selects or clicks,for example, names of buttons, fields, tab names, and menu used for the name of a dialog box, page, pane, screen area withtitle, table label, and for full titles of publications that are referenced in for:lSystem codelSystem output, such as an error message or scriptlPathnames, file names, file name extensions, prompts, andsyntaxlCommands and optionsMonospace italicUsed for boldUsed for user input.

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10 This service allowsusers to save, query for, and recover their files across a network. The RPC programnumber provided bynsrdis invoked from a startup shell script (for , ) atboot-time, and should never need to be started directly by a user. After it is started,nsrdstarts up the other daemons it needs to provide the networker service. Startingwith networker version ,nsrctldstarts networker services andnsrdis spawned must be run on a machine with appropriate resources. Requiredresources include both devices, such as tape drives, and sufficient disk space for theindex daemons, (seensrindexd(1m) andnsrmmdbd(1m)). The devices are controlledby multiplexor software (seensrmmd(1m)), and the disk space is used to maintain theindex of saved user files and volumes with corresponding time a backup, recover, or another session begins,nsrdstarts the program,ansrd,to process the requested session.