Dell NetWorker Primary Use Case
Currently, in my organization, I am using Dell NetWorker for open-source solutions like PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, and some large VM environments. It also supports the Dell library and is used for the library archiving system.
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We primarily use Dell NetWorker for file system backup and database backup. Additionally, the staging feature helps us manage disk space by automatically moving data to tapes after a certain period, which is crucial since we have a retention requirement of ten years for our CAD/CAM files. We are using it in the automobile industry.
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Hassan Amin
System Engineer at NCCPL
We use Dell NetWorker for backup of different servers and file systems. Sometimes, we need to perform database restorations.
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Dell NetWorker
June 2025

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I primarily use NetWorker for backup in my company. It is proposed as a physical backup and recovery solution, capable of replicating backups. NetWorker works well in conjunction with Avamar to provide a comprehensive backup solution under the name PowerProtect.
View full review »I use the solution since we have thousands of stores where the business needs servers as a backup for everything, and so we use Dell NetWorker and Dell Data Domain Systems.
We’re 90% virtualized. NetWorker is backing up all our VMs. Since NetWorker and VMware are Dell products, they integrate well together. We back up 90% of our virtual infrastructure on it. We also use it for database backups.
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Sai-Kiran
Program Manager at ITC
We are using Dell NetWorker in our ITC Limited to restore and manage data effectively. We have restored ten years of data with it.
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MD-MONIRUZZAMAN
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We just use it for one purpose only, and that is to take our core banking database, Oracle, and take the RMAN backup. It is not used for any other purpose, only for taking the core banking software's Oracle database backup using RMAN.
View full review »In our company, we rely on Dell NetWorker for many important tasks. It is our go-to for keeping documents safe and making sure our virtual environment, especially VMware, stays secure with reliable backup and recovery. We also use it for protecting user data and meeting file recording needs. Additionally, it plays a crucial role in keeping our email system, Microsoft Exchange, backed up.
The main benefits of Dell NetWorker include its efficient incremental backup windows and the comprehensive training available for protecting various environments using NetWorker and Data Domain.
View full review »We have a centralized data domain system with a 100% virtualized environment. The product helps us with VM Backup, NAS system backup, and file system backup.
View full review »We use Dell NetWorker to back up data from several databases and virtual machines.
View full review »Dell NetWorker is primarily used on customers' off-site premises to take backups from core servers. Although we are a solution provider and not the direct user, Dell NetWorker is effective in taking backups and is used in customer environments. It helps our clients by providing reliable backup solutions.
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MoinShah
System Administrator at Data Edge Limited
Our primary use cases for the product include taking regular backups of critical systems and utilizing its archiving solution. We back up our enterprise systems to a disk-based backup system and subsequently transfer these backups to an archiving system. When necessary, we recover these backups for our users, such as application and database users.
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Ramkumar Kolli
Sr. Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Dell NetWorker is used as a backup and recovery solution.
Dell NetWorker is mostly used for backup solutions, and it was quite good and easy to work with.
View full review »Dell NetWorker is a secure and backup service tool.
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Vlad Prozhogin
Managing Partner at SkyF Labs
The software is quite complicated and useful for large corporations using different information systems, like different databases and applications. NetWorker is good for many agents from different software applications. Dell has decided to launch a new software called PowerProtect, so they might close NetWorker in the future.
View full review »We have around 700 VMs and maybe 200 terabytes in standalone servers. So we are successfully backing up both VMs and the file systems of standalone servers. Altogether, we are backing up maybe 500 terabytes.
View full review »We have used the solution largely for backups, including all our databases and UX machines.
View full review »I use the solution in my company as it is a product that has been sold to many customers, especially to those who need a foolproof, solid, and stable backup and restoration solution.
The use case for Dell NetWorker has been for customers with at least 60 to 75 machines for which they need a backup tool, and after that, it can go up to a couple of thousand machines. The product is useful for those who require a working solution without much technical fixing needed to make it work. The tool's restoration part is the most important, which allows users to check if the restore part is working properly with Dell NetWorker's help. The aforementioned reasons prompted me to continue selling the product to our company's customers.
I use the solution in my company for data protection, backup, and system restoration.
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Saiyed Shahab Ahmed
Chief Digitalization Executive at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is a very good product. The administration is very good when it comes to backup scenarios. However, maintenance and support are very difficult. The creation of jobs and backups could be easier.
View full review »I primarily use NetWorker to back up over 1,200 virtual machines and over fifty databases.
View full review »I've been using this solution for backups and restoration.
View full review »We use Dell EMC NetWorker for our database and applications.
View full review »We run a software-based service. You need a network of software, and for that, you need one physical server with the connectivity of fiber cables and fiber cords. The server configuration has to be high.
We provide this solution to our customers and we are partners with Dell. I'm an information consultant.
View full review »We use Dell NetWorker for backup on tape libraries and for integration with old systems.
View full review »Primarily, I use the solution in order to backup to tape, usually for long-term backups.
View full review »The primary use cases are file system backup, endpoint backup, and virtualization backups.
We are using it with Quantum and Dell Data Domain.
View full review »We use Dell NetWorker in the banking sector.
View full review »I am using Dell NetWorker for backing up mission-critical business databases.
View full review »Usually, you can use this product to do the backups for almost everything. For first-party products, like SAP, it works well. It's good for security and protection and offers a repository for backups.
View full review »We use NetWorker to provide disaster recovery and availability for Unix servers like IBM Power Machines and enterprise database solutions like Oracle and Db2.
View full review »I use Dell EMC NetWorker for system backups.
View full review »We use it for backups and data protection.
View full review »We use Dell EMC NetWorker for several solutions we have had such as Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Linux, Windows File, File data backups, and Oracle Databases.
View full review »We have everything - we have Oracle databases, SQL databases, Windows platforms, Linux platforms, Exchange Servers. We have many servers along with several different storages. This is a very big group with a variety of systems.
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Wasi Rizvi
IT Specialist at a university with 10,001+ employees
We mostly use this solution for file-based backups.
We are a global company. We use NetWorker and other backup products throughout the world. We have a very close and long-term relationship with the EMC Networker and we are not going anywhere. We have roughly 30 to 40 TB of data stored with them.
We use this solution daily.
We have scheduled backups, daily, weekly, and monthly and we use the dashboard as a monitoring tool; if there is a failure, we can reconnect all the operational activity.
I don't directly do the backups, my backup administrator coordinates with EMC regarding all configurations, upgrades, and operational needs.
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Sufyan Khan
CTO at New Horizon Computers
I am a business partner of Dell EMC. For POC purposes, we deploy and use it on-premises to get an overview of each and every feature of Dell EMC NetWorker.
We use Dell EMC NetWorker for physical workload as well as virtual workload. We have deployed it on-premises as well as on the cloud for our clients. We have deployed it for a number of projects, and we are completely satisfied with it.
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Sufyan Khan
CTO at New Horizon Computers
We are service providers and provide NetWorker for our end-users, our customers.
For POC purposes, we use it on our premises. Also, to have an overview of each and every kind of NetWorker.
We have a number of projects that we supply Networker for and we are completely satisfied with it. We use NetWorker to serve both workload types; a physical workload, and a virtual workload.
View full review »We are using Dell EMC NetWorker for backup and restore purposes.
View full review »I was hired as a solution architect and implementation specialist for this solution. We are maintaining this solution for a customer in Hamburg, Germany.
I am working with an SAP on Oracle solution at the moment.
Our customers use this solution for backup and disaster recovery.
The usual deployment model for this solution is on-premise.
View full review »The primary use case is for system and data backup. I'm the area technical manager and we are resellers.
View full review »We use it to record sites in the system.
View full review »We use Dell EMC NetWorker as our backup application and everything backs up to Dell EMC Data Domain, where we replicate it to another EMC Data Domain. The two solutions work combined to meet our use case. Both solutions are from the same vendor and work very well together.
View full review »We use Dell EMC NetWorker for backing up VMs, files, and databases.
View full review »Dell EMC NetWorker is used for backing up and restoring data.
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Amine Koulali Idrissi
Senior Infrastructure Consultant at FORUM INTERNATIONAL
Our primary use case for the solution is for backup and recovery in all environments, such as physical and virtual ones.
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Shiraz Ahmed
Founder & CEO at Technomatters
We use NetWorker for login support for SAP and VMware. I handle all maintenance-related issues on my own.
View full review »We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our customers.
When we initially implemented this product, it was used for virtual machines that were running SAP. It is used for virtual machine backup, database backup, Exchange backup, and file-level backup.
View full review »We use this solution for backing up our systems.
View full review »Our retirement system in Chile is private. In short, in our social security system, when you put funds in every month, you'll have some money for your retirement. One of our client companies uses this solution for backups. There are a lot of terabytes that need to be backed-up.
They have been using this solution for eight years. They are upgrading their hardware every day. Their hardware solution is EMC Data Domain and they use Dell EMC NetWorker in order to store the data. It works fine.
Another one of our clients is a telephone company. They need to keep call data for long periods of time. Our other client is an astronomical observatory — the largest observatory in the world. They use Dell EMC NetWorker to keep track of their astronomical images, etc.
We plan to extend our use of this solution. It's our life — we sell and deploy depending on our clients' needs.
View full review »We primarily use the solution for backup systems at the company. Ther is also a secondary use case whereby if our customers have this software, we can supplement it.
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Shehan Attapattu
head of presales at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are system integrators.
We have many systems that are being backed up using NetWorker, mainly in a virtualized environment, with several typical workloads.
View full review »We are customers of Dell and I'm a Data Protection Supervisor Engineer at a Telecommunications company.
We use the Dell EMC NetWorker to make backups for our virtual environment. We have about 14 servers and we backup everything using NetWorker.
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Muhammad Sharfuddin
Solution Architect & Technical Team Lead at NDS
We use this solution to protect our numerous file servers. We have SAP HANA servers, some Oracle servers, and we have an eM server. We have several partnerships and Dell is one of them. They are very good. I'm a solution architect and technical team lead.
Most customers are integrated with the hypervisor environment. It's a mix between VMware and Hyper-V. The database and integration with the database is SQL and it has since changed to Oracle. This is mostly what we are using to unify everything.
View full review »We have a Hyper-V installation, with a mixed Linux environment.
We have an on-premises deployment.
View full review »We used the on-prem version of this solution. Our primary use case of this solution is for backup and recovery software.
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OscarSuarez
Works at AIT Grupo
We use this solution for disk storage, and to administer Save and Restore functionality in our client's data center.
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Bolaji Olaloku
Enterprise Backup Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Our primary use case is for our critical servers. We have servers across Unix and Linux environments. We back up our critical servers daily, some are scheduled and some are done manually.
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SySA43dmin
System Administrator with 1-10 employees
Primary use is a mixed and match backups, which include my file server, the Linux server as well as a the SQLs. As of now, we won't have that much of a challenge. But, sometimes it was required to make some manual intervention for any additional things. With Networker, we are having DD 25 MB as a back up solution. In addition, we are keeping the backup. So, currently it is working.
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Adalberto Filho
Storback at storback
NetWorker is for backing up large files and data banks.
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Dell NetWorker
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Dell NetWorker. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
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