How do you do a manual backup on the bootstrap?

[JTan]

As the question stated in the subject title....

 

[allesmueller]

Just start the group where your backup-server is in:

savegrp -c backup-server Group_with_backupserver

 

[Serbtastic]

Running 'savegrp -O' will save all client file indexes and the bootstrap, without backing up the entire group that the NW server is in.

 

[605]

Starting a group for the server client only (like allesmueller) is more convenient.


BTW - "savegrp -O -G groupname" is a valid tool but it will ONLY backup the indexes of the clients belonging to this group - not all clients as stated.

 

[Serbtastic]

I stated that savegrp -O will back up all client indexes and the bootstrap, this is correct. See the savegrp man page for more info.

 

[605]

Sorry to say, Serbstatic, but you misinterpreted the manpage. There is no statement about "all" clients in the data zone. And as the command only starts a specific group, how should it know about all the other clients not beloning to this group.

I have not verified this since - at that time it worked exactly as i described. To my knowledge, NW did not change the behaviour of this option.

 

[joser01]

In order to backup the indexes and create a bootstrap, I have created a bootstrap group with every client a member of the group and run the following savegrp from cron:

savegrp -O -l full bootstrap

This causes a full backup of the indexes and creates a full bootstrap.

If you run savegrp -O without a group name, it will cause a backup of the indexes in the Default group only