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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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Dell EMC: Good but not the best

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 22, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Dell EMC was used as our primary backup system. It is now past warranty and is our secondary backup system. We have two to backup our local file shares, SQL, and other data on...
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Verified user
Analyst
Dell Networker1 year of experience

NetWorker, better called "Not Workin'"

Rating: 1 out of 10
April 29, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We have been using NetWorker for the past three years for all Open Systems (Windows and Linux) backups. It has been the worst nightmare of my 40+ years in IT. We never had eve...
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Verified user
Administrator
Dell Networker3 years of experience

Great tool as a supplement to your existing backup solution

Rating: 7 out of 10
January 30, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Dell EMC Networker is a data protection suite that gives us peace of mind over our more important data and its backups. We are using it at the Data Center to give us another l...
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Verified user
Engineer
Dell Networker2 years of experience

A life saver for keeping your most important data safe!

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Dell EMC Networker is a solution for protecting the data of our file servers and App/DB servers. We got it to solve the problem of missing data protection features in our exis...
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Verified user
Administrator
Dell Networker2 years of experience

High-Performing, Reliable, Flexible, Scalable --- and not for the faint of heart!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2020
Vetted Review
Teknicor uses [Dell EMC] Networker to protect our customer data. Our customers range in size from SMB to Enterprise. It is a powerful, versatile, and reliable data protection ...
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Richard Mattiuzzo
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Protection SME
Teknicor Corporation
Dell Networker15 years of experience
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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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  • No setup fee

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Product Demos

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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 Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

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 From Top Reviewers

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High-Performing, Reliable, Flexible, Scalable --- and not for the faint of heart!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 18, 2020
RM
Richard Mattiuzzo
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Data Protection SME
Teknicor Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Dell Networker
15 years of experience
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Pros
  • Seamlessly integrates with DataDomain
  • Seamlessly integrates with vmWare for extremely fast VM backups
  • Provides agent-based integration for a very wide array of applications-aware backups, including but not limited to: Microsoft SQL/Exchange/Sharepoint, Meditech, Oracle, DB2, Informix, SAP
  • Integrates with a wide family of NAS solutions for NDMP backups
Cons
  • [Dell EMC] Networker is a not a backup software that is not for the faint of heart. It is challenging to understand, implement, and troubleshoot. Many of the errors are nondescript and undocumented, and have left many a seasoned administrator in the dust. If Networker is not implemented by an experienced professional, it will cause nothing but grief for the customer. However, if it is properly implemented and maintained, it will provide reliable, robust, flexible, and scalable data protection.
  • It really needs to transition away from Java ASAP. The HTML5 GUI is decent but still a far cry away from being ready to replace the Java interface from a functionality perspective. The Java UI is probably the weakest and most frustrating aspect of Networker, because it is clunky, resource intensive, unreliable, and just a plain eye-sore.
  • Networker support will either be a lifesaver or will dig you an early grave, depending on who takes your call. There are Networker SMEs at Dell that have been in the business for decades. If you're lucky enough to reach one, they will provide some of the best support you'll ever come across. Of course, your odds of getting to one of those people is slim, and you'll like end up getting connected to a L1 technician that just learned how to spell Networker. I know because I used to be one of those L1 technicians, and it usually just makes the customer want to find the closest bridge.

NetWorker, better called "Not Workin'"

Rating: 1 out of 10
Incentivized
April 29, 2021
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Logistics and Supply Chain Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dell Networker
3 years of experience
Pros
  • When used with a Data Domain appliance, using either DDBOOST or a VTL, it is quick and does a wonderful job of deduplication. We have 2.3 PB stored on a 140 TB DD 4500. While this is expensive storage, the cost for 2+ PB would be even higher.
  • It does a good job of brick-level backups of Exchange mailboxes, and does so in very good time. A few hours backs up our entire organizations mailbox stores in a way that provides object level restore.
  • Used in combination with DPA (Data Protection Advisor), it has a very good reporting capability. DPA, however, requires more than just surface knowledge in order to get really good reports, and the DDOS changes can wreck havoc with customized reports.
Cons
  • NetWorker has a number of glaring flaws. For starters, it does not have any built-in vaulting capability. I simply cannot believe that EMC thinks nobody takes tapes out of their libraries. Their response to our inquiry about it? "We can write a program for you that will cost x-thousands of dollars, or you can develop one yourself." We wrote our own customized program to vault tapes.
  • NetWorker does not posses any Disaster Recovery reporting capability. Again, we had to custom code reporting for this so that tape librarians would know what tapes to recall from offsite storage for entire groups of servers. During a crisis there isn't time to be doing that on a one at a time basis for hundred or thousands of servers.
  • NetWorker is extremely sensitive to DNS changes, and appears to cache DNS data in hidden locations. We have servers being reported by NetWorker as not connected when they were decommissioned years ago, removed from AD and DNS, yet we still cannot get NetWorker to stop complaining about them.
  • NetWorker does not play well at all with multi-homed clients (more than one network interface). In environments where it is not conducive to backup servers of a production network, it becomes crucial to do so over a dedicated or secondary LAN. This causes huge issues with NetWorker.
  • If a group contains a number of clients, and one of those gets hung up during a backup, the entire group fails. That is a very wasteful approach for both time and infrastructure resources. Instead, it should fail the one client and allow the remainder in the group to complete successfully. It should also allow the group run to be canceled and still keep the good clients backups rather than registering the entire group as failed.
  • There is no way in NetWorker to identify specific file/directories that fail to backup successfully. It will report on savesets, but I need to know that file abc.dat or directory F:\Program Data\ failed and why. It does me no good to get a warning that the saveset for the F drive failed. What failed and why? It may have been a critical problem, or it may have been of no importance.
  • We endured three years of NetWorker experiencing problems, enduring a grueling process of trying to get knowledgeable and rapid support -- sometimes taking days and weeks, and only after getting really pushy with support managers -- only to have the problems return over and over. For example, it has been a regular issue for the peer information to get clobbered for no apparent reason. The result is the backup fails for that client, and then I have to go in and remove the peer information on the NetWorker Server, all affected Storage Nodes, and the client. I can now run nsradmin -p nsrexec and then the print and delete statements for nsr peer information in my sleep.

Dell EMC: Good but not the best

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
May 22, 2021
Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dell Networker
1 year of experience
Pros
  • Backs up data.
  • Hardware notifications.
  • Easy to use interface.
Cons
  • Support is not so easy to work with.
  • replacing drives can be difficult.
  • Our model doesn't support VMs.

A life saver for keeping your most important data safe!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 09, 2021
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dell Networker
2 years of experience
Pros
  • The latest version has patched many bugs and runs well
  • The GUI is simple and straight forward but is powerful when needing to do more
  • Well priced solution among its peers
Cons
  • Documentation is lacking
  • Prior versions had many bugs and interface issues
  • Competitors have some more advanced features

Great tool as a supplement to your existing backup solution

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
January 30, 2021
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Dell Networker
2 years of experience
Pros
  • Gives us deep, granular control over our backups data.
  • Automates a lot of the hard work for us, saving much time.
  • Gives both physical and virtual environments a safe place for data to rest.
Cons
  • Dell software in general feels a bit data and can be cumbersome.
  • Upgrades, patches, and bug fixes are behind when an important security issue is found.
  • We sometimes have trouble getting answers from support.
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