Good point, forgot that that the save command might have a little
trouble with the server shut down (he he he). Okay, but if you did use
something like tar, with the NetWorker software shut down, is it a moot
point that the database is no longer open? I mean, a tar ball file of
/nsr/index would still be useless? Just trying to understand the nature
of the database a little better.

George

Darren Dunham wrote:
>
> > > No not quite. It never backs up the index directories as plain files,
> > > even for its own index. Think of the index as a database, NetWorker has
> > > an inbuilt module for backing them up while the database is open.
> >
> > Perhaps then this is why the .nsr files exist? Because they don't want
> > you to try to backup /nsr/index manually since they know if you do, it
> > will be bogus?
>
> Manual or automatic.  It doesn't try to save the files themselves.
>
> > Okay, what if you shut down the NetWorker software first? Would a manual
> > save, using '-i' work or might still be suspect?
>
> How are you going to do a manual save if Networker is shut down?  You'd
> have to use something else (tar/dump/etc...).  None of those would even
> bother interpreting the .nsr files so the data would be saved.
>
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