If your clients already have default schedule why are you overriding it with
group schedule? You can remove group schedule (leave it blank) create a
"full" schedule with daily level as full, assign full schedule to these two
clients, start backup group and revert the changes.

Regards,
-Punit

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:51 AM, George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT noaa DOT 
gov>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a slick way to force NetWorker to run a level full for two clients
> in the same group without forcing it to run fulls on all the clients in that
> group but still allow the other clients to run their normally scheduled
> backups?
>
> Here are the possible solutions that occur to me:
>
> 1. On the server, run 'savegrp -l full group_name -c client1 -c client2'
>
> Yes, of course, this will work, but I'd really prefer to have all the
> clients run, but only those two run fulls; the others would run whatever the
> group schedule normally calls for (in this case, an incremental).
> This is because when I run 'mminfo', I'd like to see all the clients
> reported. I guess I could run the above command a second time on the other
> clients, but specify '-l incr' ?
>
> 2. Create a temporary group, change each of the two client's configuration
> to now be a member of that second group, set its schedule for a full and
> then run that group.
>
> Seems like a long winded version of solution 1, and the other clients in
> the original group still would have to be separately launched, and 'mminfo'
> would not report them all as being from the same group.
>
> 3. All the clients in the group have the 'Default' schedule. The group has
> a custom defined schedule. If I create a new schedule, set it to a full and
> then change those two client's schedules from 'Default' to the new schedule,
> will that override the group's schedule, or will NW still use the group's
> schedule?
>
> If it will override the group's schedule then maybe this would be best?
>  suspect it will not override it?
>
> 4. Can I change the backup command field to 'save -l full' for those two
> client resources and then clear it when the backups are done???
>
> My experience with this when running 'save' from the client is that it
> ignores the '-l' option and runs an adhoc backup. I want 'mminfo' to report
> a level of 'full'. BUT, since the backup is not being manually initiated
> from the client then maybe this would force a level full to run on all the
> save sets for that client resource? Or would it still act like it was being
> run from the client?
>
> Maybe there's some other solution?
>
> Thanks.
>
> George
>
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