thanks for everyone who replied to this so far.
 
An nsrck -L7 on a large client index with lots of small files took over 30 
minutes. Other nsrck -L7 seem to take on average at least 10 minutes. This 
means that in an environment with a large number of clients (+200) there is a 
lot of time required to recover all client indexes.
 
Are there any ways to speed up client index recovery so that DR of a networker 
server can be increased timewise?
 
Can i backup a client while I am running nscrk -L7 for its client index? I 
presume that i cant?
 
What times are others seeing for client index recoveries using nsrck -L7
 
Thanks again.


--- On Tue, 10/6/08, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: [Networker] are indexes skipped during backup of networker server
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Tuesday, 10 June, 2008, 6:55 PM

On Jun 10, 2008, at 1:42 PM, mark wragge wrote:

> Is it true that a flat file backup of the networker server will  
> automatically skip the client indexes?
>  
> How is this accomplished - is it through a directive that is applied  
> automatically?
>  
> Has this always been the case with Networker in both a Unix and  
> Windows environment?
>  
> I wanted to restore the whole indexes folder to a disk and when I  
> did this the indexes were all empty although the folder structure  
> was intact. I am aware that i can restore indexes using nsrck -L7  
> but this was not how I wanted to restore the networker server OS.

Create a new savegroup, but do not schedule via NetWorker. Add every  
client to that group, then schedule the following command to back up  
the index data ...

savegrp -O -l full group_name

and schedule this to run once a day via your favorite system scheduler.

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