What is bootstrap in Legato? 1

[Doubts]

Hello.


What is bootstrap and what is the exact use of it ? All I know about it is bootstrap has to be saved for upgrading to a later version of Legato. We can do so by using mminfo command.

But what exactly is bootstrap? What does it do?

Thanks in advance,

Doubtfull

 

[Voyager1]

The bootstrap is simply a report that allows you to restore the media index files for the Legato server. It has nothing to do with your Legato clients. In the event of a disaster at the backup server itself, it will identify the saveset ID, file and record for the media index. Once that is restored you can further restore the server data.

I have my servers write the bootstrap to a file (using nsrlog), and then the command scheduler emails the log to an Exchange folder. This way I don't have to deal with all that paper...

 

[Doubts]

Is it possible to view the contents of a particular bootstrap, saved into, say a file?

 

[jcopela]

I hadn't really thought about it - nothing I know of...

 

[nandkumar4aix]

HI Anu,
only servers which r client for themselves hav the bootstrap . actually its a vet of info backed up at the end of backup by leagato servers which contains info bout client file indexes, media devices etc.

if u want to know what ur server generates as bootstrap go to nwadmin - notification - bootstrap - and give the option mail ...so that it will mail u that fileset after complition of backup.

thanks
nandkumar aix sys admin
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