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 network
Author: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:31:59 -0400
Skip, For the most part, I use groups to segregate different departments' servers. We have a very simple setup where every client's backup gets the same browse and retention period. I do have a coupl
Author: "Browning, David" <DBrown AT LSUHSC DOT EDU>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 22:17:43 -0500
We definitely group by backup type (Windows/SQL/Exchange). However, we also group by backup time, and/or, common traits. We separate out the huge fileservers, so that when they take 36 to 48 hours to
Author: "Werth, Dave" <dave.werth AT GARMIN DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 14:05:20 -0700
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 th
Author: Stephanie Finnegan <sfinnega AT AIP DOT ORG>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 09:32:47 -0400
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, differe
Author: brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:22:23 -0400
We use groups to segregate our backup types, fulls in one set, differentials in a separate complimentary set. The schedules associated with the clients in each set (same client exists in both groups)
We use groups to meet two requirements: - backups windows - differing retention times (group name forces pool selection) Since we've started using NMM, we've also needed to create groups specifically
Author: tkimball <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 01:32:37 -0400
Our setup is mostly grouped by 'type' (pc, dev, other in-house server groups, etc), with different times for each. Over time, we've added servers to groups based on what time the group ran, since we