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Re: [Networker] Are Incremental backups supported from client side or is it always full?

2010-01-08 09:52:08
Subject: Re: [Networker] Are Incremental backups supported from client side or is it always full?
From: Venkat Tudi <venkat.tudi AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:49:20 -0500
Thierry,
thank you.
-Venkat

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Thierry Faidherbe <
thierry.faidherbe AT forem DOT be> wrote:

> You forgot the -t <timestamp> for incremental backups.
> Param that is computed by savegrp (last full or diff to
> compare to) and passed to client's nsrexecd
> when starting automatically the save cmd on the client side.
>
> So, incr is full-like in size.
>
> TH
>
> Kind regards - Bien cordialement - Vriendelijke groeten,
>
> Thierry FAIDHERBE
> Backup/Storage & System Management
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Preston de Guise
> Sent: jeudi 7 janvier 2010 22:36
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Are Incremental backups supported from client side
> or is it always full?
>
> Hi,
>
> On 08/01/2010, at 03:30 , Venkat Tudi wrote:
> > Last night one of the admin wanted to do an incr backup before his
> upgrade
> > and time constraint. So I gave in him the command to push the backup to
> the
> > Server. But looks like it did a full backup.
> >
> > Save –vv –s lgtobackup –c seats –LL D:\xxxx\ -g Default –l incr  -w month
> –y
> > month
>
> Whether you flag it as an incremental or not, NetWorker will still treat it
> as a manual backup, which is everything in the given path.
>
> In fact, as of 7.5, you'll find that if you try to run a manual save
> command
> with a level included, the command will be rejected.
>
> If you truly want to reliably run an incremental backup, run it out of a
> group.
>
> (NB: I haven't got around to testing whether you can get around this by
> specifying a "last backup time" as well as the level, but I suspect that
> won't work anymore either.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Preston.
>
> --
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