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Re: [Networker] Merits of sending indexes and bootstrap to separate pool?

2004-01-23 16:29:11
Subject: Re: [Networker] Merits of sending indexes and bootstrap to separate pool?
From: Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:29:06 -0500
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, George Sinclair wrote:
>
>Question 3. What about having the server go to a separate pool?
>
>The way I see it: The only thing on the server that seems worth sending
>to a special pool would be the server's index and bootstrap. The client
>indexes get backed up when the clients themselves back up, and the rest
>can be recovered from the regular pools. I'm thinking we could have the
>server's bootstrap and index also go to this same IDX pool?
>
>Question 4: How to get the bootstap to go to this same pool?

Look at the man page for "savegrp -O". I do both the usual backup of each
client's index as each client's backup process finishes. Each morning, I
also do a "savegrp -O" for every client on my server to a separate tape
pool so that if my server's index database gets clobbered, restoring it
requires only a minimum of tape mounts. This is concidered wasteful by
some, but to me, its extra insurance in the event of a serious disk
failure. I do not send clones off-site though.

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