Networker

Re: [Networker] NDMP clients indexes gets backed up to pool Default - how to solve?

2003-04-28 10:08:49
Subject: Re: [Networker] NDMP clients indexes gets backed up to pool Default - how to solve?
From: Carl Farnsworth <carl.farnsworth AT DIGIDYNE DOT CA>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 10:08:45 -0400
Glad to see it was resolved, but just for the record, I believe the proper
way to designate the pool for these indexes would have been to
specify "index:clientname", rather than "server:clientname:index".

Regards,
Carl Farnsworth
DigiDyne Inc.

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:52:53 +0200, Oscar NOSPAM Olsson <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT 
SE>
wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Mark T Wragge wrote:
>
>MTW> So although my filer data and index are backed up to the same pool
they are
>MTW> always to seperate tapes.  If I do not have a tape in this pool in the
>MTW> library of the networker server then the group will never complete as
there
>MTW> will be a pending message requesting a tape.
>
>Well, either way, the solution was much more simple than I thought. It is
>possible to mix savesets from NDMP clients and non-NDMP clients. One just
>has to allow the NDMP pool to use all tape devices in the library. Then it
>mounts a tape from that pool on a non-NDMP tape device and writes the
>index there. I have tried mounting a tape that has only indexes on it on
>the NDMP tape device and starting the savegroup that contains NDMP
>clients, and it has saved data to that tape successfully as well.
>
>Conclusion: The information I had previously received off-list about not
>mixing NDMP savesets and non-NDMP savesets was incorrect. Everything works
>now.
>
>//Oscar
>
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