Sid,
I don't have problems with this. All I do is modify the pool to select the
groups I want to back up to that pool. I leave the Levels boxed unchecked
so any backup level can backup to the pool.
In general, if you leave all options as open as possible it works best.
Networker only uses the Default Pool if it can't find another pool that fits
the backup.
David Werth
Garmin AT, Inc
Salem, Oregon
dave.werth AT garmin DOT com
-----Original Message-----
From: Sid Shapiro [mailto:sid_shapiro AT BIO-RAD DOT COM]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:44 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Stopping use of the default pool
Although this has been an interesting discussion on how people do manual
backups, it has, I think, gotten away from my original question. This is
not a bad thing, but I am still left with the quandary.
Let's pretend I'm an idiot (well maybe this is close to the truth...) I
want to do all my backups by hitting the GUI -> group control -> Start
backup. How do I get it to stop trying to use a device from the Default
Pool?
Suggestions saying unselecting the Default Group in the pools window don't
do the trick. But there is some interaction between the levels setting in
the pool window. I have to have all the levels selected in order for it to
work. But if I do that, then It always seems to do a full backup, when I
might like it to do some other level. So - confusion reigns.
Thoughts? Comments? Name calling?
Thanks,
/ Sid /
Legato NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on
06/29/2006 09:19:37 AM:
> On Jun 29, 2006, at 12:09 PM - 6/29/06, Sid Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > ( This will probably turn out to be a basic configuration question
> > - sorry
> > about that...)
> >
> > All of our backups are initiated by scripts that are triggered by cron
> > (unix) or other job scheduling systems. We do not use the scheduler in
> > Networker. (by the way - does anyone actually use the scheduler? We
> > need
> > more precise control over our job streams and timings, which is why we
> > don't use the Networker scheduler...)
>
> Yup. I use NetWorker's built-in scheduler heavily. The only backup
> that I do outside the scheduler is a cron job
> that triggers a "savegrp -O" to do index backups.
>
> > So in our calling scripts, which use (mostly) the savegrp command, we
> > specify directly the pool and level values.
> >
> > Occasionally it would be nice to use the nwadmin GUI group control
> > to do
> > manual backups, but whenever we do this, we are always prompted to
> > load a
> > device from the default pool. I have tried everything I can think
> > of to
> > have it only use a device from the specific pool that I want to be
> > used,
> > but nothing works.
> >
> > I know this is a general question, but without giving you the whole
> > set of
> > resources, I don't know what else to tell you. What would you need to
> > know? Or what specific things should I be looking at?
>
> What I found found works well is to set up a savegroup called "test"
> or something similar.
> Go into your pools menu and associate that test group with a non-
> default tape pool.
> Then you can use this test group to run any one-up backups you need
> and/or do
> investigative work for failing backups.
>
> In fact, I have four test groups (test1, test2, test3, test4) and we
> use them all the time, but
> none of them are scheduled.
>
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