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Re: [Networker] mail server backup issue

2003-12-05 07:35:46
Subject: Re: [Networker] mail server backup issue
From: "Macina, Conrad" <Conrad.Macina AT PFIZER DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 07:35:34 -0500
I'm no expert on Legato licensing, but I believe that creating an additional
client definition for an existing client does not deplete your client
licenses. If you have a 25 client license and create six clients named
"mail1", for example, you still only use one client license and have 24
remaining. At least, that's the way it appears to work with v6.1.3 Power
Edition.


-----Original Message-----
From: David De Maeyer [mailto:ddm AT ruc DOT dk]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:24 AM
To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Conrad Macina
Subject: Re: [Networker] mail server backup issue


Hi Conrad,

Thanks for the answer. As mentioned we were looking in the doc for a
solution and as a matter of fact we found out that we could make use of
the Saved Sets to tackle our problem. The only con is that we need
several client definitions to achieve that and at the moment we don't
have the necessary license to define new clients. But of course that's
another "problem".

Thanks again.
Regards,

David

On 5 Dec 2003, at 13:08, Conrad Macina wrote:

> 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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>> Roskilde University Center
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>> 4000 Roskilde
>> Denmark
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