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Re: [Networker] Forcing a full of a windows machine?

2003-01-31 14:02:50
Subject: Re: [Networker] Forcing a full of a windows machine?
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:02:48 -0500
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>
> I have some remote windows machines about to be moved physically and I'd
> like to force a full of them before they get powered down.  Is there a
> way I can, preferably from the server side, perform a full backup of a
> single client?  I can create a temp group and throw the client in there
> but that got me an incremental.  For what's going on and the importance
> of this machine I'd like to pull down a full which can be run straight
> to tape.

Why not use the savegrp command on the backup server instead?

You could put the computers that are about to be moved into a new
savegroup then run something like


savegrp -l full newgroup

to back up all of them.

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