I'm a bit confused with the explanations.  I have a pool that exists on the
main server and storage node.  The indexes are backed up to a tape/pool on
the main server.  The data is all on the storage node.  When we clone the
storage node data we send the indexes back out to the storage node so they
go offsite with the data they represent  (we don't want indexes offsite at
location A and the data offsite at location B).

The only drawback we seem to have:
The backup of the indexes on the main server does take up a tape drive
for its duration.  It would seem I could free up a tape drive if the indexes
are backed up to the storage node (sent back out).  Are you saying there is
a way to do this?     I understand the indexes are on the main server and
associated with the main server, and having a tape copy of them there is
a good thing.  I just wanted to know if its possible.

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare


On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:08:21 +0100, Wood, R A (Bob)
<WoodR AT CHEVRONTEXACO DOT COM> wrote:

>If you want the data at the storage node and the indexes at the nsrhost
>then just select the client instead of the group in the pool selection
>(the indexes belong to the networker server but you've selected
>everything in the group go to that pool).
>
>Bob
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
>On Behalf Of Davina Treiber
>Sent: 12 May 2004 22:12
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: Re: [Networker] Dedicated Storage Node
>
>
>johan.gislen AT hik DOT se wrote:
>> I'm currently in the process of setting up a dedicated storage node
>> with a jukebox attached to it, and thought it would be a good idea to
>> create a dedicated volume pool for the media in that jukebox.
>>
>> In the settings for the volume pool (called "StorageNodePool"), I
>> selected the group "StorageNode" which contains only the client that
>> is the dedicated storage node. The client data gets written to the
>> locally attached jukebox, but when it gets to the client index it
>> wants a volume from the "StorageNodePool" at the main Networker
>> server.
>>
>> Is there any way that I can direct the storage node client's index to
>> the "Main" pool that I use for the rest of my backups?
>>
>> Platform: Windows 2000
>> Networker: 7.1.1
>
>This is expected behaviour. I'm not sure that creating this pool is a
>particular wise move. IMHO you should have a very good reason for
>creating a new pool, and I wouldn't usually class having a storage node
>as one of these reasons. Normally the best reason is to accommodate
>different retention policies, or perhaps because you have some specific
>offsite requirement.
>
>However I'm not telling you how to configure your system, so let's
>consider the question. You can configure a pool to receive your indices
>(and bootstraps if required) although I'm not sure whether it's going to
>be so easy to make that pool the same one as you are using on your
>server-as-a-storage-node. What you would do is as follows: for the index
>pool, configure the save sets fields with values of ^index: and
>^bootstrap$. You should recognise these as standard regular expressions
>that match the index and bootstrap save sets. Now - I'm not sure whether
>doing this to your main pool will create further complications, I'll
>leave that to you to consider.
>
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