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Dell Networker

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What is Dell Networker?

Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

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Popular Features

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  • Deduplication and file compression (10)
    6.9
    69%
  • Instant recovery (11)
    6.0
    60%
  • Incremental backup identification (11)
    4.8
    48%
  • Multiple backup destinations (10)
    3.0
    30%
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What is Dell Networker?

Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

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Product Demos

Dell EMC Networker: NVP-vProxy Health Check Tool Demo Using Networker Troubleshooting Tool

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Features

Data Center Backup

Data center backup tools send data to a secure storage location after encryption and de-duplication

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Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is Dell Networker?

Dell EMC NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

Available Modules

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications – Protection for business-critical databases and applications including IBM DB2, Informix, Domino (Lotus), MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for MEDITECH – Integration with certified MEDITECH Backup Facility (MBF) disaster recovery capabilities for backup and application-consistent local and remote replication

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft – VSS-based online protection for Microsoft applications including Exchange, Hyper-V, SQL Server, and SharePoint

Dell EMC NetWorker Module for SAP – Availability of mission-critical enterprise resource planning (ERP), business warehousing, and high-performance, in-memory analytics by delivering fast, online backup and recovery for SAP and SAP HANA.



Dell Networker Video

This video provides an introduction to NetWorker version changes: https://dell.to/2Q43u4l

Dell Networker Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
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Frequently Asked Questions

Dell NetWorker is an enterprise-level data protection software product that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery.

Reviewers rate Encryption highest, with a score of 7.2.

The most common users of Dell Networker are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Dell EMC Networker is a versatile backup solution that is widely used across various industries and organizations to protect critical data. For example, Provident Funding relies on Networker to back up virtual machine images, physical Windows systems, and Cellera NAS, ensuring the safety of their data. The IT team at Provident Funding uses Networker directly and can easily make recovery requests as needed. By leveraging Networker, Provident Funding reduces the risk of data loss and maintains the integrity of their information.

Additionally, Networker has been chosen by numerous companies to safeguard their data. Although there have been experiences where the product did not meet expectations, such as backups failing regularly and encountering poor support at one undisclosed company over the past three years, for the most part, Networker has proven to be a reliable backup solution. It is utilized by both SMBs and enterprise-level organizations to protect a variety of systems including file servers, application/database servers, VMs, and databases. Moreover, Networker is often paired with Dell DataDomain to create a comprehensive backup infrastructure that handles a large volume of critical backups. This combination offers peace of mind and enhanced data protection for organizations across different sectors.

Overall, Dell EMC Networker provides valuable backup capabilities for protecting crucial data assets in diverse environments. Its versatility makes it suitable for businesses of varying sizes and needs, offering a single application to manage different backup datasets effectively. While there have been instances where users encountered challenges with the product or received subpar support, many organizations rely on Networker to ensure the integrity and availability of their data.

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Dell EMC Networker works well for straightforward backups. We use it for SQL and data backups. We have been doing that with our VM and non-VM environments. Nowadays there are better solutions for VM environments that can back up the whole VM for faster recovery. If you want to just copy files and or SQL this will work just fine.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would not recommend NetWorker to anyone for any reasons. It is huge, cumbersome, extremely problematic and EMC's support organization with rare exceptions is the worst in the industry. We have had nothing other than serious problems with it for three years, despite consistent attempts to get it working correctly. Every time an EMC engineer came on site (always someone different) that person would ask "Why did you do it this way? That's not the best way to do it." He/she would then change things to how they thought it should be set up (in direct contrast to what the previous EMC person had done and said). In other words, there are no consistent best practices across their support organization. This caused major issues for us, and left me extremely stressed knowing that there was no way in hell we could ever recover from a true disaster.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If asked, I would tell a colleague that this is really a supplement to their fully fleshed out backup system. We use comm vault for the heavy lifting, and Networker for the critical data and systems. This allows us to have separate backups and less of a single point of failure.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Ok so if someone wanted to know about this product I would first see what they're currently using for backup software. A lot of basic backup options are available in most enterprise backup products. But if the colleague asking for a recommendation is needing low-level control and deep data security, then I could recommend this to them.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For users with a basic backup system that does not provide advanced data protection this is a life saver in the age we live in where hackers are looking to encrypt and ruin your important backups. I would recommend [Dell EMC Networker] based on its features, price, and ease of use. If you have a similar product already it does not offer many unique features however.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
[Dell EMC] Networker is very powerful at the Enterprise level, especially environments requiring a mixture of VM, physical server, and specific application aware backups. Networker's versatility, scalability, and flexibility make it ideal in such scenarios. Networker is also very capable in small and mid-sized environments, although its true potential is only really unlocked at the Enterprise level.

I would not deploy Networker in an environment that does not have a senior-level infrastructure engineer that is committed to being the "Networker guy" --- ie. the person that understands the product and is willing to continually learn about it. Do not hand this product to a junior tech or anyone who only has a passing interest in backup administration. It will not end will for your organization.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are already a strong Dell EMC shop and they give you a screaming deal on Networker, it may be worth it. Dell has been promoting new backup and recovery products, but they seem to be being lapped by the startups in the space.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Networker is only suited for one thing: being a front end for good hardware. We love our Data Domains, the dedupe is insane and they ingest data rapidly. You'd be better off using Veeam, which can talk to the Data Domains natively (that's what we're doing now).
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Networker is well suited for small to medium environments where additional features aren't needed. Dealing with additional devices and light disk to disk backup works fairly well. Where it may be less appropriate, at least before version 9, would be in environments where complex enterprise level schedules might be required or which have applications which need specific backup needs.
Josh Dix | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Networker is really good at backing up a lot of data and it might be the right tool for the job if you have a title like 'backup administrator'. I say this because I think to really master and benefit from Networker it requires an immense amount of time playing with the CLI tools before you could comfortably solve many issues on your own. Due to the need I have (and I generally don't have to do this for similar type/complexity products) to reach out to support so often I wouldn't generally recommend it as I work in many systems and my job requires me to administer multiple back end systems of comparable size and importance. However, it is incredibly efficient and reliable, so if you have a large infrastructure and have plenty of time to get really intimate with the software, it can be a good friend. I didn't chose Networker, at first I didn't like it, and now I think it is an OK or even good solution, but it took a lot of experience to feel that way.
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