Hi Fazil,

You cannot overwrite SN Affinity from group level.

You can try forcing savegroup to use a pool that is not allowed on 
backup server devices... (then use -I for not saving indexes and 
bootstrap) but requries you to add sn to each client SN Affinity list

The only other "workaround" keeping same pools you may have is 
adding the new SN in each client's storage node affinity list,
turn all backup server devices to service mode and
launch the group. Streams will go to SN (depending of
used pool and per pool allowed device settings, off course).
Then once all sessions are started, reset server devices to
enabled state.

No other solutions I think ....

What I always try to do is to never use my backup servers
as storage node ... 

HTH

Th 


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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
Sent: mercredi 17 octobre 2007 16:45
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] SAVEGRP HELP

Hello,
I need  to run cmd line backup for a group but need to have it use
storage 
node server, is there a switch to do that ?
The reason is master server is too busy right now, normally the group 
backs up on the master server, i know i can change the individual client

and re-run the group directing it to SN server, but thought that cmd
line 
and script would give me more flexibility without changing client 
attribute.

Here is the partial perceived cmd



savegrp -r2 -v -l incr -e "month" -G PROD 
What switch i need to add to make the backup happen on SN server.
Thanks

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