Siobhan Ellis wrote:

As far as the server is concerned, it does not have to be auto scheduled by
NetWorker. Just ake sure that you have a savegrp with the NetWorker server
and actually run a savegrp -O -c <server name> <savegrp name>

This will doa bootsrap backup of the Networker server. That's the nsrdb,

media database, and the CFI of the NW server

Siobhan,

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Peter.Viertel AT MACQUARIE DOT COM 11/04/2006 12:58:14 pm >>>

Running all your savegrp's on the server via control-m is feasable -
wouldn't want to try running all the saves directo from the client,

that's just too much work.

If you do choose to run your savegrp's from an external scheduler you
should remember to have one savegroup with just the backup server itself
in it, and have this auto-scheduled by legato still, otherwise every
single savegrp invocation will do a bootstrap backup as well.

If you run /usr/sbin/savegrp then it will hang until the job is
finished, and if control-m wants to cancel the run it can just kill
savegrp...   The other option is to use script to touch the 'run now'
field in the group record. This lets you still stop the job via the
legato GUI if you want, but makes monitoring the process more
complicated with control-m.

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2006 6:05 AM
To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
Subject: [Networker] SAVE vs SAVEPNPC or SAVEGRP BACKUPS

Hello,
I am contamplating running all my backups via Control M schedular.
Questions:
1. Which of the above program is more suitable.
2. Will savegrp be able to apply my Directives.
3. How will i apply addtional parameters such as VSS OFF if i use
savegrp.
4. I have to be able to backup incremental during the week and FULL over
the weekend, am i better off using Built in schdedule or useing levels.
5. How will be reporting via Networker GUI be effected & also the logs.
6. Will troubleshooting problems become harder in this enviroment.
7. Does any one have scripts already written that you can share.
8. How would i apply all the options ava to group resource via cmd line
backups.
Thanks

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