Thanks Rick,
I stand corrected then... 
I figured there was some way to force a client to write its backup to a
specific pool, I've never used that feature of a media-pool before so I
wasn't really aware of it or knew it was possible. I wish they would
simply have a way in the Networker User GUI to specify the pool like its
easily done in Exchange or MS-SQL modules.. 
  That's what I love about this list, you learn things every day from
the experience of others...  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Rick Brode
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:46 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Manual backups anyone ?
> 
> Actually, a client-initiated backup will not necessarily go 
> to the Default pool.  It will definitely go to the Default 
> pool only if all other enabled backup pools have a value 
> specified in their "group" 
> attribute.  However, if a pool is configured without any 
> value for its "group" attribute, a client-initiated backup 
> MAY be written to it.  For example, if a pool is configured 
> with a value only in its "client" 
> attribute, any backup of the client, whether server-initiated 
> or client-initiated, will go to that pool (assuming there is 
> not another pool that specified both the client and the group). 
> 
> The only reason I bring this up is because a high percentage 
> of folks that attend my classes believe that all 
> client-initiated backups go to the Default pool.
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> Goslin, Paul wrote:
> > We rarely, if ever, do manual backups for the following 
> reason. There 
> > is no way to specify the backup-pool when using the 
> Networker User GUI 
> > to initiate a manual backup, therefore, the backup can only 
> go to the 
> > Default pool (which we don't use).
> > ...
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: EMC NetWorker discussion
> >> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Skip Hanson
> >> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 2:50 PM
> >> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> >> Subject: [Networker] Manual backups anyone ?
> >>
> >> All,
> >>   Good morning. I am curious how many of you perform manual/adhoc 
> >> backups ?
> >>
> >>     
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