Here's how I would do it (if I'm understanding the problem statement
correctly):

1. Set up Schedules called "Monday Full", "Tuesday Full", etc. You didn't
say what you do on the days when you don't do full backups, but you could
set the other days to "incr" or "skip", depending on your needs.

2. Then create a client definition for your a-f directories. Set the
Schedule to "Monday Full" and under Save sets include /usr/mail/accounts/a
through /usr/mail/accounts/f. Create separate clients for g-m and the rest
of your directories. All these clients can go in one group, or you can
create a separate group for each of them.

3. When the group runs you should get what you want.

Conrad Macina
Pfizer, Inc.


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 12:38:41 +0100, David De Maeyer <ddm AT RUC DOT DK> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>We use NetWorker 6.1.3 to backup our mail server. Every week we run a
>full backup on the mail server (Linux). This is of course synonym of
>heavy load on the backup server the day we proceed with the full
>backup!
>
>We were considering splitting the full backup in several smaller "full"
>backups... and by doing so we could balance the load over several days.
>
>Taking a full backup of the mail server is basically taking a full
>backup of a directory called /usr/mail/accounts (for the example). The
>idea of splitting the backup came naturally because of the
>/usr/mail/accounts directory architecture:
>
>/usr/mail/accounts/a
>/usr/mail/accounts/b
>/usr/mail/accounts/c
>/usr/mail/accounts/d
>...
>/usr/mail/accounts/y
>/usr/mail/accounts/z
>
>We would like - for example - to backup a-f accounts on Monday, g-m on
>Tuesday, etc... instead of taking a full backup on Thursday...
>
>We had a look in the docs but didn't find (yet) any "relevant" topic to
>put some light on that issue.
>
>Is is possible to define one directive telling the server to only
>backup /usr/mail/accounts/a to /usr/mail/accounts/f on Monday?
>
>Any help would be appreciated!
>
>server: NetWorker Server 6.1.3 + Solaris 2.8
>client: NetWorker Client 6.1.3 + Linux Debian 3.0
>
>Regards,
>
>David
>
>
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