We use groups extensively (and probably not according to best practice! ;) )
for scheduling purposes. We have about 150 clients in our environment, and
roughly 50 groups. Different save sets, different levels, weekdays vs.
weekends, monthly specials, etc. But, we also use a third-party scheduler to
actually kick off our backups and our clones, and there are really only about
20 combinations in there. So, having different flavors of client backups
available in different Networker groups allows us to fine tune the schedule
from the Maestro side of things.
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Werth, Dave
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 5:05 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How are groups being used ?
We basically have 4 groups, one for regular backups (weekly fulls and daily
incrementals), one for Exchange backups (weekly fulls and daily incrementals)
and two for what we call Month End backups that are archived (monthly fulls).
The Month End backups are split between systems that have software such as
Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle that we shut down and backup cold for the
backup and systems that don't have those sorts of applications.
We only have 18 systems that we back up, all Windows except for 1 Sun/Solaris
system.
I also create a group for each individual system that is backed up so I can
make the occasional special backup of that system but they only get run
manually so I don't really count them in the group count.
Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Skip Hanson
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 7:24 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] How are groups being used ?
All,
Hello. I am curious how all of you are using groups in NetWorker ? Do you
group backups by type: (Filesystem, Oracle, SQL etc.) or do you use other
criteria ? You can respond to me using networker_usability AT emc DOT com or
here
in the listserv.
Thanks,
Skip Hanson
NetWorker Usability
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